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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects

You're reading from   Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects Learn to leverage the power of Yocto Project to build efficient Linux-based products

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788470469
Length 162 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Otavio Salvador Otavio Salvador
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Daiane Angolini Daiane Angolini
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Preface 1. Meeting the Yocto Project FREE CHAPTER 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

Fetching the source code


When the Poky source code is downloaded, what is actually copied is the metadata and the BitBake tool. Additional source code is fetched on demand. One of the main features supported by BitBake is source code fetching.

This support has been designed to be as modular and as flexible as possible. Every Linux-based system includes the Linux kernel and several other utilities that form the root filesystem, such as OpenSSH or a Linux kernel.

The OpenSSH source code is available from its upstream website as a tar.gz file hosted on an HTTP server, while the Linux kernel release is usually hosted on a Git repository, and those two different source codes can easily be fetched by BitBake.

BitBake offers support for many different fetcher modules that allow the retrieval of tarball files and a number of other protocols, such as Git, Subversion, Bazaar, OSC, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, CVS, Mercurial, Perforce, and SSH.

The mechanism used by BitBake to fetch the source code is internally...

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