Chapter 3. History

Embedded Development the Debian way.

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History of Emdebian
Technical challenges

History of Emdebian

  • Project started in 2000 by Frank Smith
  • Produced Embedsys and a toolchain
  • In 2001 update to CML2 and new project lead
  • In 2003 Embedsys updated to Kconfig
  • In 2006 new start, new approach with the Slind and the composite method.

The result is a composite of many of these attempts. Readers who remember Stag should note that it has now been folded into the composite method alongside Slind as all three methods used dpkg-cross which is also the basis of emdebian-tools.