The role of Codethink's Baserock Embedded Linux is to enable silicon chipset and board vendors—not to mention Original Device Manufacturers and Systems Integrators—to keep pace with the rapid development of Linux and dramatically reduce product development cycles. Baserock, just elevated to v1.1, is an open-source Linux build system for the development of embedded, industrial or bare-metal server-based Linux systems. This new release provides virtual machine images for developers and a sample base image to demonstrate a Baserock-produced small system image. The OS also delivers the proven benefits of continuous integration (CI) to Linux system development, which heretofore were available only to developers of server and Web-based applications, says Codethink. CI, adds Codethink, makes it easier to develop Linux-based systems and to integrate system components. Baserock source code is available for building on 64-bit x86 and ARM systems. Virtual machine binaries are available for 64-bit x86 machines. Through native compilation of software and images, Codethink asserts that Baserock provides a robust and highly efficient build environment that is as closely aligned to upstream development environments as possible.
