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You're reading from Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects Learn to leverage the power of Yocto Project to build efficient Linux-based products

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788470469

Length 162 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Embedded Systems

Authors (2):

Otavio Salvador

Daiane Angolini

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Meeting the Yocto Project FREE CHAPTER

2. Baking Our Poky-Based System

3. Using Toaster to Bake an Image

4. Grasping the BitBake Tool

5. Detailing the Temporary Build Directory

6. Assimilating Packaging Support

7. Diving into BitBake Metadata

8. Developing with the Yocto Project

9. Debugging with the Yocto Project

10. Exploring External Layers

11. Creating Custom Layers

12. Customizing Existing Recipes

13. Achieving GPL Compliance

14. Booting Our Custom Embedded Linux

Using supported package formats

Packages are critical to Poky as they enable the build system to produce different types of artifacts, such as images and toolchains.

A recipe may generate one or more packages as a result of it being executed by BitBake. On the other hand, images and toolchains are made of several packages that are unpacked and configured to accomplish the intended goal. The generated result is wrapped in such a way that it can be installed into one or more images, or it can be deployed for later use.

List of supported package formats

Currently, BitBake supports four different package formats:

RPM: Originally named Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), but now known as the RPM package format since its adoption by...

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Authors (2)

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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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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