Every SoM comes with a makeshift Linux system. Every manufacturer must add OTA updates, security measures, remote access, GUI frameworks and more. That's a lot of duplicated work. This would be much more efficient, if a SoM maker provides a Linux with all the features ready for use by manufacturers. Toradex does this with Torizon. We show how manufacturers can benefit from this groundwork with minimal effort. Torizon even runs on non-Toradex SoMs. SoM = Solutions on Module.
Recently, I brought up Qt 5.5 on a Freescale i.MX35, which has an ARM11 CPU but no OpenGL support. Despite the missing OpenGL, I wanted to write the HMI with QML. The additional challenge was that the cross-compilation