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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 server side


We now have the base ready and can continue with implementing the project-specific parts. The Raspberry Pi that is connected with the circuit and the lamp will act as a server. It will run a tiny web server that can be reached through a client of your choice using a web browser.

For the server side, we will adapt and evolve the server example used in Chapter 9, Making a Media Hub on the Raspberry Pi,  and combine it with an updated version of the gpio-packt recipe from Chapter 5, Creating, Developing, and Deploying on the Raspberry Pi, . To start with, we need to add the meta-packt_rpi layer used in earlier chapters of the book. We have already ensured that our newly created layer has a higher priority then meta-packt_rpi, but let's also add it in a dependency order in bblayers.conf. Here is the complete bblayers.conf file that will be used in this project:

# LAYER_CONF_VERSION is increased each time build/conf/bblayers.conf
# changes incompatibly
POKY_BBLAYERS_CONF_VERSION...