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== How to get the Poky Linux distribution ==
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#REDIRECT:[[How to use the Yocto Project to develop Embedded Linux]]
  
[http://www.pokylinux.org/about Poky] is an open source platform build tool. It is a complete software development environment for the creation of Linux devices. It enables you to design, develop, build, debug, and test a complete, modern, software stack using Linux, the X Window System and GNOME Mobile based application frameworks for both x86 and ARM based platforms. Key features include:
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= How to get the Yocto Linux distribution  =
  
*Full, fast, cross device filesystem creation with Linux Kernel 2.6.x, GCC, GNU C library, Busybox, networking and much more.
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'''It's not an embedded Linux distribution – it creates a custom one for you'''
*Highly configurable and extendable with full documentation, granular feature control, packaging, and wide machine coverage.
 
*Developer friendly with QEMU device virtulisation, SDK generation, Anjuta IDE, OProfile and GDB integration.
 
*Complete GNOME Mobile platform with the X Window System, Matchbox, GTK+ 2.12, D-Bus, GStreamer and 'Sato' reference implementation.
 
*Support for bleeding edge OpenGL user interfaces with the Clutter toolkit.
 
*A supported, stable and proven base for real world products built on Linux and open source software.
 
  
=== Overview of How-To ===
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Much of this How-To is extracted from different sources. If you would like to read some of the original articles or resources, please visit them and thank the authors:
This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn build and run Poky images for IGEP v2 devices as quickly and easily as possible.
 
  
This How-To works with the '''Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine''' but most of the contents are valid also for other GNU/Linux distributions. We do not issue any guarantee that this will work on other distributions.
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*The Yocto project website ( http://www.yoctoproject.org )  
 
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*The Yocto project documentation ( http://www.yoctoproject.org/documentation )  
This How-To will start out by a '''Poky Platform Setup Environment''' introducing you to the Poky environment and the way you can build an Poky-based image.
 
 
 
Next, we will cover the '''Poky images supported'''.
 
 
 
Lastly, we will learn how to '''Installing and Using the Result on a NFS-mounted root filesystem'''.
 
 
 
=== Requirements ===
 
*'''Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine'''
 
 
 
=== Feedback and Contributing ===
 
At any point, if you see a mistake you can contribute to this How-To.
 
 
 
==== How to get involved (http://pokylinux.org/support/) ====
 
 
 
There are many ways to get involved with the Poky project. Poky has a friendly community providing informal support and discussion.
 
 
 
'''Mailing list'''
 
 
 
To subscribe send mail to;
 
 
 
poky+subscribe <at> openedhand <dot> com
 
 
 
And follow simple instructions in subsequent reply. Archives are available here.
 
 
 
'''Bugs'''
 
 
 
Problems with Poky should be reported in the bug tracker: http://bugzilla.o-hand.com/
 
 
 
'''IRC'''
 
 
 
Chat with the Poky development team and community in #poky on freenode.
 
 
 
=== References ===
 
Much of this How-To is extracted from different sources. If you would like to read some of the original articles or resources, please visit them and thank the authors:
 
 
 
*The Poky website ( http://www.pokylinux.org/ )
 
*The Poky Handbook ( http://www.pokylinux.org/doc/poky-handbook.html )
 
*Using the Anjuta Poky SDK plugin ( http://pokylinux.org/blog/index.php/2010/03/using-the-anjuta-poky-sdk-plugin )
 
 
*The Openembedded website ( http://www.openembedded.org/ )
 
*The Openembedded website ( http://www.openembedded.org/ )
  
=== Poky Platform Setup Environment ===
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== Overview of How-To  ==
 
 
Poky is derivative of the Open Embedded. In order to function properly, the Virtual Machine need some adaptations of the development system.
 
 
 
The first thing we need to do is set Bash as default sh shell, execute
 
<pre>
 
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash
 
</pre>
 
and answer no when asked whether you want to install dash as /bin/sh.
 
So, now, "/bin/sh" file links to "/bin/bash" (not to "/bin/dash").
 
 
 
An other change we need to perform is to change some default settings of the kernel. Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file as root with your preferred editor and set the vm.mmpap_min_addr to 0
 
<pre>
 
$ sudo nano /etc/sysctl.conf
 
vm.mmap_min_addr = 0
 
</pre>
 
then, run this command
 
<pre>
 
$ sudo sysctl -p
 
</pre>
 
 
 
Install extra packages necessary for bitbake to function.
 
<pre>
 
$ sudo apt-get update
 
$ sudo aptitude install subversion cvs git-core \
 
      build-essential help2man diffstat texi2html texinfo \
 
      libncurses5-dev gawk python-dev python-psyco python-pysqlite2 \
 
      scrollkeeper gnome-doc-utils gettext automake mercurial libx11-dev \
 
      libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libsdl1.2-dev
 
</pre>
 
 
 
==== Poky version 3.2 codename Purple (stable branch) ====
 
Poky version 3.2 ( stable branch) is available from a GIT repository located at git://git.igep.es/pub/scm/poky.git. The first thing you will do is clone the Poky project.
 
 
 
<pre>
 
$ git clone git://git.igep.es/pub/scm/poky.git
 
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/eballetbo/Software/staging/poky/.git/
 
remote: Counting objects: 52944, done.
 
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (16209/16209), done.
 
remote: Total 52944 (delta 34820), reused 52910 (delta 34806)
 
Receiving objects: 100% (52944/52944), 35.52 MiB | 249 KiB/s, done.
 
Resolving deltas: 100% (34820/34820), done.
 
</pre>
 
Then, switch to stable branch (Purple v3.2)
 
<pre>
 
$ cd poky
 
$ git checkout origin/release/purple -b release/purple
 
warning: You appear to be on a branch yet to be born.
 
warning: Forcing checkout of origin/release/purple.
 
Branch release/purple set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/release/purple.
 
Switched to a new branch "release/purple"
 
</pre>
 
After that, you need to link an user board configuration (local.conf). The configuration file who defines various configuration variables which govern what Poky platform does.
 
<pre>
 
$ ln -s ../../meta-contrib/build/conf/local.conf.igep0020 build/conf/local.conf
 
</pre>
 
 
 
At this point the Poky build environment needs to be set up, you will do this with the poky-init-build-env script. Sourcing this file in a shell makes changes to PATH and sets other core bitbake variables based on the current working directory.
 
 
 
==== Poky (development branch) ====
 
The 'master' is where the development work takes place and you should use this if you're after to work with the latest cutting edge developments. It is possible trunk can suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed and if this is undesirable we recommend using one of the release branches.
 
 
 
Poky (development branch) is available from a GIT repository located at git://git.pokylinux.org/poky.git. The first thing you will do is clone the Poky project.
 
 
 
<pre>
 
$ git clone git://git.pokylinux.org/poky.git
 
</pre>
 
 
 
After that, you need to create an user configuration (local.conf). The configuration file who defines various configuration variables which govern what Poky platform does.
 
 
 
<pre>
 
$ mkdir -p build/conf
 
</pre>
 
And create with your preferred editor the build/conf/local.conf file, the result will be like this:
 
 
 
<pre>
 
# CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/ changes incompatibly
 
CONF_VERSION = "1"
 
 
 
# Where to cache the files Poky downloads
 
DL_DIR ?= "${OEROOT}/sources"
 
# Where to cache Poky's built staging output
 
PSTAGE_DIR ?= "${OEROOT}/pstage"
 
  
# Uncomment and set to allow bitbake to execute multiple tasks at once.
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This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn build and run Yocto-based images for IGEP Technology devices as quickly and easily as possible.  
# For a quadcore, BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4", PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4" would
 
# be appropriate.
 
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "4"
 
# Also, make can be passed flags so it run parallel threads e.g.:
 
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 4"
 
  
# The machine to target
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== About the Yocto Project™  ==
#MACHINE ?= "qemux86"
 
MACHINE ?= "igep0020"
 
  
# Other supported machines
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The [http://www.yoctoproject.org Yocto Project™] is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.
#MACHINE ?= "qemuarm"
 
#MACHINE ?= "netbook"
 
#MACHINE ?= "c7x0"
 
#MACHINE ?= "akita"
 
#MACHINE ?= "spitz"
 
#MACHINE ?= "nokia770"
 
#MACHINE ?= "nokia800"
 
#MACHINE ?= "fic-gta01"
 
#MACHINE ?= "bootcdx86"
 
#MACHINE ?= "cm-x270"
 
#MACHINE ?= "em-x270"
 
#MACHINE ?= "htcuniversal"
 
#MACHINE ?= "mx31ads"
 
#MACHINE ?= "mx31litekit"
 
#MACHINE ?= "mx31phy"
 
#MACHINE ?= "zylonite"
 
  
DISTRO ?= "poky"
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== Why use the Yocto Project™  ==
# For bleeding edge / experimental / unstable package versions
 
# DISTRO ?= "poky-bleeding"
 
  
# Poky has various extra metadata collections (openmoko, extras).
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Because it's a complete embedded Linux development environment with tools, metadata, and documentation - everything you need. The free tools are easy to get started with, powerful to work with (including emulation environments, debuggers, an Application Toolkit Generator, etc.) and they allow projects to be carried forward over time without causing you to lose optimizations and investments made during the project’s prototype phase. The Yocto Project fosters community adoption of this open source technology allowing its users to focus on their specific product features and development
# To enable these, uncomment all (or some of) the following lines:
 
# BBFILES = "\
 
#    ${OEROOT}/meta/packages/*/*.bb \
 
#    ${OEROOT}/meta-extras/packages/*/*.bb \
 
#    ${OEROOT}/meta-openmoko/packages/*/*.bb \
 
#    ${OEROOT}/meta-moblin/packages/*/*.bb \
 
#    "
 
# BBFILE_COLLECTIONS = "normal extras openmoko moblin"
 
# BBFILE_PATTERN_normal = "^${OEROOT}/meta/"
 
# BBFILE_PATTERN_extras = "^${OEROOT}/meta-extras/"
 
# BBFILE_PATTERN_openmoko = "^${OEROOT}/meta-openmoko/"
 
# BBFILE_PATTERN_moblin = "^${OEROOT}/meta-moblin/"
 
# BBFILE_PRIORITY_normal = "5"
 
# BBFILE_PRIORITY_extras = "5"
 
# BBFILE_PRIORITY_openmoko = "5"
 
# BBFILE_PRIORITY_moblin = "5"
 
  
BBMASK = ""
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== Build Platform Setup Environment  ==
  
# EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES allows extra packages to be added to the generated images
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In order to build an image with BSP support for a given release, you need to download the corresponding BSP repository. At this time latest stable branch for IGEP devices is denzil.
# (Some of these are automatically added to certain image types)
 
# "dbg-pkgs"    - add -dbg packages for all installed packages
 
#                  (adds symbol information for debugging/profiling)
 
# "dev-pkgs"    - add -dev packages for all installed packages
 
#                  (useful if you want to develop against libs in the image)
 
# "tools-sdk"      - add development tools (gcc, make, pkgconfig etc.)
 
# "tools-debug"    - add debugging tools (gdb, strace)
 
# "tools-profile"  - add profiling tools (oprofile, exmap, lttng valgrind (x86 only))
 
# "tools-testapps" - add useful testing tools (ts_print, aplay, arecord etc.)
 
# "debug-tweaks"  - make an image for suitable of development
 
#                    e.g. ssh root access has a blank password
 
# There are other application targets too, see meta/classes/poky-image.bbclass
 
# and meta/packages/tasks/task-poky.bb for more details.
 
  
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES = "tools-debug tools-profile tools-testapps debug-tweaks"
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  $ git clone -b denzil git://git.isee.biz/pub/scm/poky.git
  
# The default IMAGE_FEATURES above are too large for the mx31phy and
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Enter to the poky directory,
# c700/c750 machines which have limited space. The code below limits
 
# the default features for those machines.
 
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_c7x0 = "tools-testapps debug-tweaks"
 
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_mx31phy = "debug-tweaks"
 
EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES_mx31ads = "tools-testapps debug-tweaks"
 
  
# A list of packaging systems used in generated images
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  $ cd poky
# The first package type listed will be used for rootfs generation
 
# include 'package_deb' for debs
 
# include 'package_ipk' for ipks
 
#PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_deb package_ipk"
 
PACKAGE_CLASSES ?= "package_ipk"
 
  
# POKYMODE controls the characteristics of the generated packages/images by
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and clone the meta-isee layer.  
# telling poky which type of toolchain to use.
 
#
 
# Options include several different EABI combinations and a compatibility
 
# mode for the OABI mode poky previously used.
 
#
 
# The default is "eabi"
 
# Use "oabi" for machines with kernels < 2.6.18 on ARM for example.
 
# Use "external-MODE" to use the precompiled external toolchains where MODE
 
# is the type of external toolchain to use e.g. eabi.
 
# POKYMODE = "external-eabi"
 
  
# Uncomment this to specify where BitBake should create its temporary files.
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  $ git clone -b denzil git://git.isee.biz/pub/scm/meta-isee.git
# Note that a full build of everything in OpenEmbedded will take GigaBytes of hard
 
# disk space, so make sure to free enough space. The default TMPDIR is
 
# <build directory>/tmp
 
TMPDIR = "${OEROOT}/build/tmp"
 
  
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  $ source oe-init-build-env
  
# Uncomment this if you are using the Openedhand provided qemu deb - see README
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Having done that, and assuming you downloaded the BSP contents at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can build a igep image by adding the location of the 'meta-igep' layer to 'bblayers.conf'
# ASSUME_PROVIDED += "qemu-native"
 
  
# Comment this out if you don't have a 3.x gcc version available and wish
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Add below line into .../poky/build/conf/bblayers.conf:
# poky to build one for you. The 3.x gcc is required to build qemu-native.
 
# ASSUME_PROVIDED += "gcc3-native"
 
  
# Uncomment these two if you want BitBake to build images useful for debugging.
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        &lt;path to&gt;/poky/meta-isee \
# DEBUG_BUILD = "1"
 
# INHIBIT_PACKAGE_STRIP = "1"
 
  
# Uncomment these to build a package such that you can use gprof to profile it.
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To enable the isee layer, add the 'igep00x0 MACHINE' to .../poky/build/conf/local.conf:
# NOTE: This will only work with 'linux' targets, not
 
# 'linux-uclibc', as uClibc doesn't provide the necessary
 
# object files.  Also, don't build glibc itself with these
 
# flags, or it'll fail to build.
 
#
 
# PROFILE_OPTIMIZATION = "-pg"
 
# SELECTED_OPTIMIZATION = "${PROFILE_OPTIMIZATION}"
 
# LDFLAGS =+ "-pg"
 
  
# Uncomment this if you want BitBake to emit debugging output
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  MACHINE&nbsp;?= "igep00x0"
# BBDEBUG = "yes"
 
# Uncomment this if you want BitBake to emit the log if a build fails.
 
BBINCLUDELOGS = "yes"
 
  
# Set this if you wish to make pkgconfig libraries from your system available
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You should then be able to build a image as such:  
# for native builds. Combined with extra ASSUME_PROVIDEDs this can allow
 
# native builds of applications like oprofileui-native (unsupported feature).
 
#EXTRA_NATIVE_PKGCONFIG_PATH = ":/usr/lib/pkgconfig"
 
#ASSUME_PROVIDED += "gtk+-native libglade-native"
 
  
ENABLE_BINARY_LOCALE_GENERATION = "1"
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  $ bitbake demo-image-sato
  
# The architecture to build SDK items for, by setting this you can build SDK
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At the end of a successful build, you should have an image that you could use for boot device from flash or a micro-SD card.  
# packages for architectures other than the host i.e. building i586 packages
 
# on an x86_64 host.
 
# Supported values are i586 and x86_64
 
#SDKMACHINE="i586"
 
  
# Poky can try and fetch packaged-staging packages from a http, https or ftp
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== Extending the available packages with others layers ==
# mirror. Set this variable to the root of a pstage directory on a server.
 
#PSTAGE_MIRROR ?= "http://someserver.tld/share/pstage"
 
  
INHERIT += "rm_work"
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You can append more layers to your environment in order to build more packages, in following wxample you'll download the meta-openembedded layer. In your poky directory
</pre>
 
  
At this point the Poky build environment needs to be set up, you will do this with the poky-init-build-env script. Sourcing this file in a shell makes changes to PATH and sets other core bitbake variables based on the current working directory.
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  $ git clone -b denzil git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded
  
=== Poky images supported ===
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Add the layer into build/conf/bblayers.conf:  
As discussed above the Poky build environment needs to be set up using the following command:
 
  
<pre>
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        &lt;path to&gt;/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
$ source poky-init-build-env
 
</pre>
 
Once the Poky build environment is set up, a target can now be built using:
 
  
<pre>
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Now you can build any of the new packages added, for example:
$ bitbake <target>
 
</pre>
 
The target is the name of the recipe you want to build. Common targets are the images (in meta/packages/images/) or the name of a recipe for a specific piece of software like busybox. For more details about the images have a look to the [http://www.pokylinux.org/doc/poky-handbook.html Poky Handbook]
 
  
For example, you will build the Sato image using the following command:
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  $ bitbake postgresql
  
<pre>
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== Create your own Linux image ==
$ bitbake poky-image-sato
 
</pre>
 
After a long time the complete file system images are placed here,
 
  
<pre>
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TODO
  tmp-igep0020/deploy/images/
 
</pre>
 
and any resulting .ipk packages emitted by Poky are placed here.
 
  
<pre>
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== Yocto 1.2 'denzil' documentation ==
  tmp-igep0020/deploy/ipk/
 
</pre>
 
  
==== Images supported for stable branch (Purple 3.2) ====
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'''Official documentation'''
  
Refer to http://www.pokylinux.org/doc/poky-handbook.html#ref-images for standard images
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* [http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.2/yocto-project-qs/yocto-project-qs.html Yocto Project Quick Start]: This short document lets you get started with the Yocto Project quickly and start building an image.
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* [http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.2/adt-manual/adt-manual.html The Yocto Project Application Development Toolkit (ADT) User's Guide]: This manual provides information that lets you get going with the ADT to develop projects using the Yocto Project.
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* [http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.2/bsp-guide/bsp-guide.html The Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide]: This brief document defines a structure for BSP components. Having a commonly understood layout encourages standardization.
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* [http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.2/dev-manual/dev-manual.html The Yocto Project Development Manual]: This Manual provides an overview of the development process for images and user-space applications.
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* [http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.2/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html The Yocto Project Reference Manual]: This manual is the complete reference guide to the Yocto Project, including the Poky reference system which contains a worki
  
Refer to [[Ubuntu 8.04 IGEP v2.0 SDK Virtual Machine]] to how to install and use poky images on a NFS-mounted root filesystem.
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= See also  =
  
--- That's all folks ---
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*[[How to get the Angstrom distribution]]
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*[[How to get the Ubuntu distribution]]
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*[[How to get the Linaro distribution]]
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*[[How to get the Android distribution]]
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*[[How to get the Meego distribution]]
  
[[Category:Software distributions|Poky]]
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[[Category:Software_distributions|Poky]]

Latest revision as of 13:55, 26 July 2013

How to get the Yocto Linux distribution

It's not an embedded Linux distribution – it creates a custom one for you

Much of this How-To is extracted from different sources. If you would like to read some of the original articles or resources, please visit them and thank the authors:

Overview of How-To

This How-To is meant to be a starting point for people to learn build and run Yocto-based images for IGEP Technology devices as quickly and easily as possible.

About the Yocto Project™

The Yocto Project™ is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture. It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.

Why use the Yocto Project™

Because it's a complete embedded Linux development environment with tools, metadata, and documentation - everything you need. The free tools are easy to get started with, powerful to work with (including emulation environments, debuggers, an Application Toolkit Generator, etc.) and they allow projects to be carried forward over time without causing you to lose optimizations and investments made during the project’s prototype phase. The Yocto Project fosters community adoption of this open source technology allowing its users to focus on their specific product features and development

Build Platform Setup Environment

In order to build an image with BSP support for a given release, you need to download the corresponding BSP repository. At this time latest stable branch for IGEP devices is denzil.

 $ git clone -b denzil git://git.isee.biz/pub/scm/poky.git

Enter to the poky directory,

 $ cd poky

and clone the meta-isee layer.

 $ git clone -b denzil git://git.isee.biz/pub/scm/meta-isee.git
 $ source oe-init-build-env

Having done that, and assuming you downloaded the BSP contents at the top-level of your yocto build tree, you can build a igep image by adding the location of the 'meta-igep' layer to 'bblayers.conf'

Add below line into .../poky/build/conf/bblayers.conf:

       <path to>/poky/meta-isee \

To enable the isee layer, add the 'igep00x0 MACHINE' to .../poky/build/conf/local.conf:

 MACHINE ?= "igep00x0"

You should then be able to build a image as such:

 $ bitbake demo-image-sato

At the end of a successful build, you should have an image that you could use for boot device from flash or a micro-SD card.

Extending the available packages with others layers

You can append more layers to your environment in order to build more packages, in following wxample you'll download the meta-openembedded layer. In your poky directory

 $ git clone -b denzil git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded

Add the layer into build/conf/bblayers.conf:

       <path to>/poky/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \

Now you can build any of the new packages added, for example:

 $ bitbake postgresql

Create your own Linux image

TODO

Yocto 1.2 'denzil' documentation

Official documentation

See also