Chapter 1. Welcome to Yocto Project and BeagleBone Black
In this chapter, we will discuss how we can use Yocto Project to bring up BeagleBone. We will discuss the steps that are necessary to set up a host environment for Yocto Project, create images, and set up BeagleBone hardware. We will also discuss how to prepare a card and finally deploy images on the board. Fortunately, BeagleBone is one of the reference boards of Yocto Project, and it makes our lives easier. We can find the core steps for hardware setup in README.hardware, under Poky. There is a lot of information in the Yocto Project Development Reference Manual. What will we be doing here then? The steps given under Poky assume a lot of previous knowledge and sometimes a great deal of generic approach is used there, which isn't very useful for us. We will simplify things here. During this journey, we will pay a visit to different configuration files of Yocto Project and try to develop an understanding of these files. In this chapter, we will:
- Set up a host environment
- Obtain Yocto Project
- Build for BeagleBone
- Learn about configuration files
