Hello all, I'm an embedded software guy struggling with Yocto. I'm not asking for assistance as I cannot be saved. Rather, I'd like to make my own. How hard it would be to put a Linux distro onto a device without it? For example, if I were to get a perfectly good distro (let's just say Debian) with the right architecture going in a container. Is there a simple way to combine that with u-Boot, and other crap from a SoC manufacturer to build an image? If that is oversimplifying, I've done Linux from scratch before, and I'd be willing to go that route as well. I guess the issue boils down to the specifics like building the image and anything else that I'm not aware of.

So, what part of this idea is going to be a lot harder than I'm giving it credit for?

By the way, I'm aware of Buildroot. This is more for learning purposes, and who knows... maybe I will actually make something out of it.