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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788470469
Pages 162 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Authors (2):
Otavio Salvador Otavio Salvador
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Daiane Angolini Daiane Angolini
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface
1. Meeting the Yocto Project 2. Baking Our Poky-Based System 3. Using Toaster to Bake an Image 4. Grasping the BitBake Tool 5. Detailing the Temporary Build Directory 6. Assimilating Packaging Support 7. Diving into BitBake Metadata 8. Developing with the Yocto Project 9. Debugging with the Yocto Project 10. Exploring External Layers 11. Creating Custom Layers 12. Customizing Existing Recipes 13. Achieving GPL Compliance 14. Booting Our Custom Embedded Linux Index

Knowing the local.conf file


When we initialize a build environment, it creates a file called build/conf/local.conf, which is a powerful tool that can configure almost every aspect of the build process. We can set the machine we are building for, the toolchain host architecture to be used for a custom cross-toolchain, optimize options for maximum build time reduction, and so on. The comments inside the build/conf/local.conf file are a very good documentation and reference of possible variables, and their defaults. The minimal set of variables that we probably want to change from the default is the following:

MACHINE ??= "qemux86"

The MACHINE variable is where we determine the target machine we wish to build for. At the time of writing this book, Poky supports the following machines in its reference BSP:

  • beaglebone: This is BeagleBone, that is the reference platform for 32-bit ARM
  • genericx86: This is a generic support for 32-bit x86-based machines
  • genericx86-64: This is a generic support for 64...
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