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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project

You're reading from Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Leverage the power of the Yocto Project to build efficient Linux-based products

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804615065

Length 196 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Operating Systems

Authors (2):

Otavio Salvador

Daiane Angolini

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Meeting the Yocto Project

2. Chapter 2: Baking Our First Poky-Based System FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 3: Using Toaster to Bake an Image

4. Chapter 4: Meeting the BitBake Tool

5. Chapter 5: Grasping the BitBake Tool

6. Chapter 6: Detailing the Temporary Build Directory

7. Chapter 7: Assimilating Packaging Support

8. Chapter 8: Diving into BitBake Metadata

9. Chapter 9: Developing with the Yocto Project

10. Chapter 10: Debugging with the Yocto Project

11. Chapter 11: Exploring External Layers

12. Chapter 12: Creating Custom Layers

13. Chapter 13: Customizing Existing Recipes

14. Chapter 14: Achieving GPL Compliance

15. Chapter 15: Booting Our Custom Embedded Linux

16. Chapter 16: Speeding Up Product Development through Emulation – QEMU

17. Chapter 17: Best Practices

18. Index

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Understanding Poky

Poky is the default Yocto Project reference distribution, which uses OpenEmbedded build system technology. It is composed of a collection of tools, configuration files, and recipe data (known as metadata). It is platform-independent and performs cross-compiling using the BitBake tool, OpenEmbedded Core, and a default set of metadata, as shown in the following figure. In addition, it provides the mechanism to build and combine thousands of distributed open source projects to form a fully customizable, complete, and coherent Linux software stack.

Poky’s main objective is to provide all the features an embedded developer needs.

Figure 1.1 – Poky main components

Figure 1.1 – Poky main components

BitBake

BitBake is a task scheduler and execution system that parses Python and Shell Script code. The code that is parsed generates and runs tasks, which are a set of steps ordered per the code’s dependencies.

BitBake evaluates all available metadata...

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Authors (2)

Otavio Salvador

Otavio Salvador

Otavio Salvador loves technology and started his free software activities in 1999. In 2002, he founded O.S. Systems, a company focused on embedded system development services and consultancy worldwide, creating and maintaining customized BSPs, and helping companies with their product developments challenges. This resulted in his joining the OpenEmbedded community in 2008, when he became an active contributor to the OpenEmbedded project.

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Angolini

Angolini

Daiane Angolini has been working with embedded Linux since 2008. She has been working as an application engineer at NXP, acting on internal development, porting custom applications from Android, and on-site customer support for i.MX architectures in areas such as the Linux kernel, u-boot, Android, Yocto Project, and user-space applications. However, it was on the Yocto Project that she found her place.

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