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Otavio Salvador
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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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Daiane 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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Detailing the layer's source code


Usually, a layer has a directory tree, as shown in the following screenshot:

The layer name should start with meta-; it is not a requirement, but the advised naming convention. Inside this directory, there are two files, <layer>/COPYING and <layer>/README, a license, and a message to the user. In <layer>/README, we must specify any other dependency and information that the layer's users need to know.

The classes folder should hold both the classes provided the classes that are specific to that layer (the .bbclass files). It is an optional directory.

The <layer>/conffolderis mandatory and should provide the configuration files (the.conffiles). Primarily, the layer configuration file<layer>/conf/layer.conf, to be detailed in the next chapter, is the file with the layer definition.

When the <layer>/conf folder is from a BSP layer, the directory structure should look like the following screenshot:

If the <layer>/conf folder...

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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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Daiane 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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