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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

By : Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq, Irfan Sadiq
Book Image

Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

By: Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq, Irfan Sadiq

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Recipe Hotspot-yb


When we run a tree command on the hotspot-yb recipe directory, we get the following output:

$  tree ../meta-ybdevelop/recipes-example/hotspot-yb/
../meta-ybdevelop/recipes-example/hotspot-yb/
├── files
│   ├── aplaunch.sh
│   ├── ap.service
│   ├── carl9170.conf
│   ├── hostapd.conf.yb
│   ├── setup-gw.sh
│   ├── udhcpd.conf.yb
│   └── udhcpd.leases
└── hotspot-yb_0.1.bb

First, we will discuss these files one by one, although these are mostly available through the links shared in Literature Survey. Yet, some files are renamed, or some of the contents are changed. We won't be discussing the contents, rather just the use of these files. Next, we will discuss our recipe, hotspot-yb_0.1.bb, which is also not very complex, as it has only two simple tasks.

The access point launcher script

aplaunch.sh is an access point launcher script. This script is triggered by systemd daeipt. It performs the following major tasks:

  • Launches the DHCP server

  • Launches the hostap daemon

  • Launches the...