Hob

In order to explore Hob, we will, through this section, sweep through the different essential steps for its proper functioning.

Preparing the environment for Hob

As in Chapter 2 , Building our First Poky Image for the Raspberry Pi, the first step is to initialize the environment. Recall this command:

$ source oe-init-build-env rpi-build

Once the command is launched, the terminal will be redirected to the rpi-build directory.

Running Hob

Now that we have initialized all the variables required to build, we can start the Hob interface with this command:

$ hob

Once you run this command, Hob will try to parse the configuration files (local.conf and bblayers.conf) in order to find the metadata available to create the image. After this step, you will see the interface launch screen, as shown here:

Now, we can choose the desired machine from the list offered by Hob. Select the raspberrypi machine.

Note

The machine option you choose corresponds to the MACHINE variable in the local.conf file.

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