A similar process is building a custom kernel and rootfs for an ARM device such as the beaglebone. Olimex actually has a good tutorial for their device: https:

A similar process is building a custom kernel and rootfs for an ARM device such as the beaglebone. Olimex actually has a good tutorial for their device: https://www.olimex.com/wiki/AM335x https://www.olimex.com/wiki/AM335x This is only slightly more complicated due to the need to cross-build but I found it fairly easy with qemu-static-arm and prebuilt cross toolchain packages for Ubuntu/ Debian. The benefit is that you can develop for a target device that is not your PC, so no worry about messing up the bootloader and leaving your PC in a state where you need a recovery CD to fix it and boot. Just get a USB-serial cable :) You can also try buildroot or yocto, although I had no interest in building every package manually versus relying on Debian's repos.