1. Introduction
* development environment
2. Components of a Linux distribution
* Linux distribution overview
* Linux boot process (how Linux boots)
* UEFI and the bootloader
* Linux kernel and initial root filesystem (initrd/initramfs)
* Target root filesystem
3. Building a Linux kernel
* Upstream vs distribution kernels
* Linux kernel release process
* Downloading and unpacking the kernel source
* Configuring and tweaking the kernel
* Compiling the kernel
* Testing the kernel without a root filesystem
4. Building a root filesystem
* Bootstraping a Debian root filesystem
* Introduction to Buildroot (and busybox)
* Downloading and unpacking the Buildroot source
* Configuring and tweaking Buildroot
* Creating the root filesystem with Buildroot
* Testing the root filesystem without the kernel
5. Using the custom distribution (Linux kernel + root filesystem)
* Booting the custom distribution on a virtual machine with QEMU