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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781785289736
Pages 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq
Irfan Sadiq Irfan Sadiq
Profile icon Irfan Sadiq
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Welcome to Yocto Project and BeagleBone Black What's BitBake All About? Creating the helloworld Recipe Adding Multimedia to Your Board Creating and Exploring Layers Your First Console Game Turning BeagleBone into a Home Surveillance System BeagleBone as a Wi-Fi Access Point Index

Layer creation using script


We should always start with something easy, in order to keep things simple. So, a simple way to create a layer is to execute the following command from the script directory, under the poky directory:

$  ./scripts/yocto-layer create test

This will create a directory named meta-test in the poky directory, from where we invoke this command. However, before that, you have to answer some questions. The answers are discussed in these steps:

  • Enter the layer priority you'd like to use for this layer: [default: 6] 7

  • Check whether you would like to have an example recipe created: (y/n) [default: n]

  • Check whether you would you like to have an example bbappend file created: (y/n) [default: n] y

  • Enter the name you'd like to use for your bbappend file: [default: example] helloworld

  • Enter the version number you'd like to use for your bbappend file, (this should match the recipe you're appending the file to): [default: 0.1]

Then, this script will notify us about enabling our newly...

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