TheYoctoProjectandLinuxSoftwareDevelopmentfori.MX.pdf

External Use TM The Yocto Project and Linux? Software Development for i.MX Application Processors FTF-SDS-F0106 A P R . 2 0 1 4 Lauren Post | Yocto i.MX Team Lead TM External Use 1 Agenda ? Yocto Project Introduction ? Yocto Project Freescale i.MX Releases ? Yocto Project Setup and Build ? Yocto Project Debugging Tips ? Freescale Manufacturing Tool TM External Use 2 Yocto Project Introduction: High Level Overview ? What is the Yocto Project? “A Linux Foundation workgroup whose goal is to produce tools and processes that enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded software independent of architecture” Freescale Yocto Project ? Linux distributed build system ? Replacement for LTIB ? Higher integration with community ? Flexible release targets TM External Use 3 Yocto Project Introduction: Releases Yocto Project has releases on 6 month cycles approximately every October and April. Upcoming Releases: Yocto Project 1.6 in April 2014 Past releases: ? Dora Yocto Project 1.5 in October 2013 ? Dylan Yocto Project 1.4 in April 2013 ? Danny Yocto Project 1.3 in October 2012 ? Denzil Yocto Project 1.2 in April 2012 TM External Use 4 Yocto Project Introduction: Building Blocks Poky - Open source platform build tool. At the core of Poky is the bitbake task executor together with various types of configuration files. Poky contains common components and toolchain. Bitbake - Parses metadata, generating a list of tasks from it and then executing them. Metadata - .bb files are usually referred to as recipes‘ OpenEmbedded-Core - metadata repository Class - (.bbclass) Contain information which is useful to share between metadata files Configuration - (.conf) files define various configuration variables which govern what Poky does. Layers - Sets of common recipes such as meta-fsl-arm TM External Use 5 Yocto Project Introduction: Development Environment So