Using physical hardware
To ease the exploration of the Yocto Project’s capabilities, it is good to have a real board so we can enjoy the experience of booting our customized embedded system. For this, we have tried to collect the most widely available boards so the chances of you owning one are higher.
The next sections will cover the steps for the following boards:
- BeagleBone Black: BeagleBone Black is community-based, with members worldwide. Further information is available at https://beagleboard.org/black/.
- Raspberry Pi 4: The most famous ARM64-based board with the broadest community spread worldwide. See more details at https://www.raspberrypi.org/.
- VisionFive: The world’s first generation of affordable RISC-V boards designed to run Linux. See more details at https://www.starfivetech.com/en.
All the boards listed are maintained by non-profit organizations based on education and mentoring, which makes the community a fertile place to discover...