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Yocto for Raspberry Pi

You're reading from   Yocto for Raspberry Pi Create unique and amazing projects by using the powerful combination of Yocto and Raspberry Pi

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785281952
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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TEXIER Pierre-Jean TEXIER Pierre-Jean
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Petter Mabäcker Petter Mabäcker
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Preface 1. Meeting the Yocto Project FREE CHAPTER 2. Building our First Poky Image for the Raspberry Pi 3. Mastering Baking with Hob and Toaster 4. Understanding BitBake 5. Creating, Developing, and Deploying on the Raspberry Pi 6. Working with External Layers 7. Deploying a Custom Layer on the Raspberry Pi 8. Diving into the Raspberry Pi's Peripherals and Yocto Recipes 9. Making a Media Hub on the Raspberry Pi 10. Playing with an LCD Touchscreen and the Linux Kernel 11. Contributing to the Raspberry Pi BSP Layer 12. Home Automation Project - Booting a Custom Image

Exploring Git

Git is the version control system used within the Yocto Project, including the Raspberry Pi BSP layer (meta-raspberrypi). Therefore, Git is a central part that you need to master before considering contributing to the Yocto Project and its subprojects.

What is Git?

Git is a distributed version control system that has been around since 2005 and is designed to handle projects with speed and efficiency, regardless of size. It was originally created to handle the source code of the Linux kernel. Git is free and open source and can be used by anyone without any need to pay licensing fees. The design of Git is highly suited to the manner of working used within open source projects. Besides the possibility of using distributed development, it has an easy logging mechanism to record who did what, cryptographic authentication of history, and an easy way to create branches, among other things.

One of the fundamental differences between many other distributed version control systems (VCS...

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