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Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project

By : Otavio Salvador
Book Image

Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project

By: Otavio Salvador

Overview of this book

A practical tutorial guide which introduces you to the basics of Yocto Project, and also helps you with its real hardware use to boost your Embedded Linux-based project. If you are an embedded systems enthusiast and willing to learn about compelling features offered by the Yocto Project, then this book is for you. With prior experience in the embedded Linux domain, you can make the most of this book to efficiently create custom Linux-based systems.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
15
A. References
16
Index

Downloading the Poky source code

After we install the needed packages into our development host system, we need to get the Poky source code that can be downloaded with Git, using the following command:

$: git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky --branch daisy

Tip

Learn more about Git at http://git-scm.com.

After the download process is complete, we should have the following contents inside the poky directory:

Downloading the Poky source code

Note

The examples and code presented in this and the next chapters use the Yocto Project Version 1.6 and Poky Version 11.0. The code name is Daisy, as reference.