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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

By : Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq, Irfan Sadiq
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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

By: Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq, Irfan Sadiq

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Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black
Hafiz Muhammad I Sadiq | Irfan Sadiq
Jun, 2015 | 144 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black
Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Welcome to Yocto Project and BeagleBone Black
Welcome to Yocto Project and BeagleBone Black
Setting up a host environment
Obtaining Yocto Project
Let's build for BeagleBone
Creating partitions and formatting the SD card
Copying images to the card
Hardware setup
Serial setup
Booting BeagleBone
More about configuration files
Summary
2
What's BitBake All About?
What's BitBake All About?
A brief history of BitBake
Legacy tools and BitBake
BitBake execution
BitBake options
Summary
3
Creating the helloworld Recipe
Creating the helloworld Recipe
Creating helloworld
Contents of the helloworld recipe
Building a recipe
Build directories
Tasks
Deploying helloworld
Summary
4
Adding Multimedia to Your Board
Adding Multimedia to Your Board
Introducing gaku
The recipe for gaku
GStreamer recipes' short trip
Action time
Summary
5
Creating and Exploring Layers
Creating and Exploring Layers
Layer creation using script
Contents of layers
Conditional selection based on layers
Append files
Packagegroups
Summary
6
Your First Console Game
Your First Console Game
Hardware requirements
Pacman4Console
Let's develop our recipe
Adding a package to the root filesystem
Summary
7
Turning BeagleBone into a Home Surveillance System
Turning BeagleBone into a Home Surveillance System
Problem statement
Requirements
Existing solutions / literature survey
Selected solution
Let's start the fun
Client side
Get ready for running and surprises
Further enhancements
Summary
8
BeagleBone as a Wi-Fi Access Point
BeagleBone as a Wi-Fi Access Point
Problem statement / use case
Requirements
Literature survey
Our strategy
Enabling kernel support
Required packages
Changing upstart scripts
Recipe Hotspot-yb
Enabling hotspot-yb
Managing in packagegroups
Knowing the issues/enhancements
Summary
Index
Index

Summary

In this chapter, we converted our BeagleBone Black to a Wi-Fi hotspot. To achieve this, we modified kernel configurations and created a recipe to bundle all of the configuration files. Also, we changed systemd instead of the SysVinit script.

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