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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition

By : Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini
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Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Projects - Second Edition

By: Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini

Overview of this book

Yocto Project is turning out to be the best integration framework for creating reliable embedded Linux projects. It has the edge over other frameworks because of its features such as less development time and improved reliability and robustness. Embedded Linux Development using Yocto Project starts with an in-depth explanation of all Yocto Project tools, to help you perform different Linux-based tasks. The book then moves on to in-depth explanations of Poky and BitBake. It also includes some practical use cases for building a Linux subsystem project using Yocto Project tools available for embedded Linux. The book also covers topics such as SDK, recipetool, and others. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to generate and run an image for real hardware boards and will have gained hands-on experience at building efficient Linux systems using Yocto Project.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
7
Diving into BitBake Metadata
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned that the Yocto Project can be used for development as well as for image creation. We learned how to create two types of toolchains, image-based and generic, how to use them, and how to create a development image in order to build and deploy our application on the target machine. In addition, we learned how we can use Eclipse in the development phase to write, build, and debug our applications.

In the next chapter, we will look at how we can configure Poky to help us in the debugging process, how we can configure our system to provide the required tools for a remote debug using GDB, how we can track our changes using buildhistory, and how we can use a handy tool called devshell.