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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project - Third Edition

By : Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini
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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project - Third Edition

By: Otavio Salvador, Daiane Angolini

Overview of this book

The Yocto Project is the industry standard for developing dependable embedded Linux projects. It stands out from other frameworks by offering time-efficient development with enhanced reliability and robustness. With Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project, you’ll acquire an understanding of Yocto Project tools, helping you perform different Linux-based tasks. You’ll gain a deep understanding of Poky and BitBake, explore practical use cases for building a Linux subsystem project, employ Yocto Project tools available for embedded Linux, and uncover the secrets of SDK, recipe tool, and others. This new edition is aligned with the latest long-term support release of the aforementioned technologies and introduces two new chapters, covering optimal emulation in QEMU for faster product development and best practices. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to generate and run an image for real hardware boards. You’ll gain hands-on experience in building efficient Linux systems using the Yocto Project.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

Delineating the Yocto Project

To ease our understanding of the duties and outcomes of the Yocto Project, we can use the analogy of a computing machine. The input is a set of data that describes what we want, that is, our specification. As an output, we have the desired Linux-based embedded product.

The output is composed of the pieces of the operating system. It encompasses the Linux kernel, bootloader, and the root filesystem (rootfs) bundled and organized to work together.

The Yocto Project’s tools are present in all intermediary steps to produce the resultant rootfs bundle and other deliverables. The previously built software components are reused across builds – applications, libraries, or any software component.

When reuse is not possible, the software components are built in the correct order and with the desired configuration, including fetching the required source code from their respective repositories, such as The Linux Kernel Archives (www.kernel.org...