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Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project

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Product type Book
Published in Jul 2014
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783282333
Pages 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Meeting the Yocto Project 2. Baking Our Poky-based System 3. Using Hob 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 References
Index

Working with the Poky SDK


Usually, the standard Poky workflow includes creating an image and package recipes and deciding what will be installed on the final product image. However, a huge amount of time is spent developing, writing, testing, or adapting source code for our application.

So, when we write and test our application, we only care about the application itself, providing the libraries that the application requires precede application development, although this can be an iterative process. However, we want a test environment that looks as similar as possible to the final one, mainly because of the toolchain compatibility and also to avoid behavioral changes when we integrate the application into our product.

To help with this task, we can create a toolchain to be used externally with the Poky environment. Poky generates an SDK package that can be installed on any computer, independent of Poky being installed on it. In addition, the installed toolchain is compatible with the internal...

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