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Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project

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Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
References
Index

Working with the Poky SDK


Usually, the standard Poky workflow includes creating an image and package recipes and deciding what will be installed on the final product image. However, a huge amount of time is spent developing, writing, testing, or adapting source code for our application.

So, when we write and test our application, we only care about the application itself, providing the libraries that the application requires precede application development, although this can be an iterative process. However, we want a test environment that looks as similar as possible to the final one, mainly because of the toolchain compatibility and also to avoid behavioral changes when we integrate the application into our product.

To help with this task, we can create a toolchain to be used externally with the Poky environment. Poky generates an SDK package that can be installed on any computer, independent of Poky being installed on it. In addition, the installed toolchain is compatible with the internal...