About the Author

Alex González is software engineering supervisor at Digi International and one of the maintainers of the Digi Embedded Yocto distribution.

He started working professionally with embedded systems in 1999 and the Linux kernel in 2004, designing products for voice and video over IP networks, and followed his interests into machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies and the Internet of Things.

Born and raised in Bilbao, Spain, Alex has his second home in the UK, where he lived for over 10 years and received his MSc in communication systems from the University of Portsmouth. He currently lives in La Rioja, where he enjoys photography and a good Riojan wine.

I would like to thank the Yocto and OpenEmbedded communities, whose dedication keeps the Yocto project running, and the people involved with the Freescale BSP community layer, whose work is the basis for this book.

I would also like to thank my family, for the time, space, and support that made this possible, and especially my mum for showing me how to be brave—gracias Ama por enseñarme a ser valiente.