Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project

by Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini

Overview

A practical tutorial guide which introduces you to the basics of Yocto Project, and also helps you with its real hardware use to boost your Embedded Linux-based project. If you are an embedded systems enthusiast and willing to learn about compelling features offered by the Yocto Project, then this book is for you. With prior experience in the embedded Linux domain, you can make the most of this book to efficiently create custom Linux-based systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781783282340
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	07/09/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	142
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Otavio Salvador loves to play video games 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 release management challenges. This resulted in him joining the OpenEmbedded community in 2008, when he became an active contributor to the OpenEmbedded project, culminating in his attribution as the maintainer of the Freescale ARM BSP layer in the Yocto Project in 2011.

Daiane Angolini has been focusing on embedded technologies for the past 8 years. Since 2008, she has been working on Freescale Semiconductors as an application engineer, on internal development and porting custom applications from Android to Freescale architectures, and on customer support for ARM processors of the i.MX family, while also participating in Freescale forums. She has been working with the Yocto Project tools through meta-fsl-arm, the BSP meta layer that provides board support for Freescale ARM machines, since 2012. The desire to become an expert in ice cream making has been keeping her busy in her spare time for the past year.

Table of Contents

1. Meeting the Yocto Project
2. Baking Our Poky-based System
3. Using Hob 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