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Yocto for Raspberry Pi

By : TEXIER Pierre-Jean, Petter Mabäcker
Book Image

Yocto for Raspberry Pi

By: TEXIER Pierre-Jean, Petter Mabäcker

Overview of this book

The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation workgroup, which produces tools (SDK) and processes (configuration, compilation, installation) that will enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded software, independent of the architecture of embedded software (Raspberry Pi, i.MX6, and so on). It is a powerful build system that allows you to master your personal or professional development. This book presents you with the configuration of the Yocto Framework for the Raspberry Pi, allowing you to create amazing and innovative projects using the Yocto/ OpenEmbedded eco-system. It starts with the basic introduction of Yocto's build system, and takes you through the setup and deployment steps for Yocto. It then helps you to develop an understanding of Bitbake (the task scheduler), and learn how to create a basic recipe through a GPIO application example. You can then explore the different types of Yocto recipe elements (LICENSE, FILES, SRC_URI, and so on). Next, you will learn how to customize existing recipes in Yocto/OE layers and add layers to your custom environment (qt5 for example).
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Yocto for Raspberry Pi
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Mastering Baking with Hob and Toaster

Creating the meta-packt_rpi layer with the yocto-layer script


To create our custom layer, we can use two different methods:

  • Manually: create the directory (meta-*) and create the layer configuration file (conf/layer.conf)

  • * Use the yocto-layer script provided by the Poky environment

To gain flexibility and avoid mishandling, we'll use the second option. To use it,  we must initially source all variables to gain access through our shell in the yocto-layer script, as shown in the following command:

$ source oe-init-build-env rpi-build

Now that our environment is set up, we have access  to the yocto-layer  script,  and so,  we can begin the process of creating the layer.

Note that this script (yocto-layer) creates the layer in the current directory by default. That is why we must place it at the root of our environment:

$ cd /where/you/want/to/stored/your/layer

We can now launch the script using the following command:

$ yocto-layer create <layer_name> -o...