Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project -- Table of Contents -- Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the color images of the book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Meeting the Yocto Project -- What is the Yocto Project? -- Delineating the Yocto Project -- Understanding Poky -- Using BitBake -- OpenEmbedded-Core -- Metadata -- The alliance of OpenEmbedded Project and Yocto Project -- Summary -- 2. Baking Our Poky-based System -- Configuring a host system -- Installing Poky on Debian -- Installing Poky on Fedora -- Downloading the Poky source code -- Preparing the build environment -- Knowing the local.conf file -- Building a target image -- Running images in QEMU -- Summary -- 3. Using Hob to Bake an Image -- Building an image using Hob -- Customizing an image with Hob -- Summary -- 4. Grasping the BitBake Tool -- Understanding the BitBake tool -- Exploring metadata -- Parsing metadata -- Dependencies -- Preferring and providing recipes -- Fetching the source code -- Remote file downloads -- Git repositories -- Other repositories -- Optimizing the source code download -- Disabling network access -- Understanding BitBake's tasks -- Extending tasks -- Generating a root filesystem image -- Summary -- 5. Detailing the Temporary Build Directory -- Detailing the build directory -- Constructing the build directory -- Exploring the temporary build directory -- Understanding the work directory -- Understanding the sysroot directories -- Summary -- 6. Assimilating Packaging Support.

Using supported package formats -- List of supported package formats -- Choosing a package format -- Running code during package installation -- Understanding shared state cache -- Explaining package versioning -- Package feeds -- Using package feeds -- Summary -- 7. Diving into BitBake Metadata -- Using metadata -- Working with metadata -- The basic variable setting -- Variable expansion -- Setting a default value using ?= -- Setting a default value using ??= -- Immediate variable expansion -- Appending and prepending -- Conditional metadata set -- Conditional appending -- File inclusion -- Python variable expansion -- Defining executable metadata -- Defining Python functions in the global namespace -- The inheritance system -- Summary -- 8. Developing with the Yocto Project -- Deciphering the software development kit -- Working with the Poky SDK -- Using an image-based SDK -- Generic SDK - meta-toolchain -- Using a SDK -- Developing applications on the target -- Integrating with Eclipse -- Summary -- 9. Debugging with the Yocto Project -- Differentiating metadata and application debugging -- Tracking image, package, and SDK contents -- Debugging packaging -- Logging information during task execution -- Utilizing a development shell -- Using the GNU Project Debugger for debugging -- Summary -- 10. Exploring External Layers -- Powering flexibility with layers -- Detailing the layer's source code -- Adding meta layers -- Summary -- 11. Creating Custom Layers -- Making a new layer -- Adding metadata to the layer -- Creating an image -- Adding a package recipe -- Writing a machine definition -- Using a custom distribution -- Machine features versus distro features -- Understanding the variables scope -- Summary -- 12. Customizing Existing Recipes -- Common use cases -- Adding extra options to recipes based on Autoconf -- Applying a patch.

Adding extra files to the existing packages -- Understanding file searching paths -- Changing recipe feature configuration -- Customizing BusyBox -- Customizing the linux-yocto framework -- Summary -- 13. Achieving GPL Compliance -- Understanding copyleft -- Copyleft compliance versus proprietary code -- Some guidelines for license compliance -- Managing software licensing with Poky -- Commercial licenses -- Using Poky to achieve copyleft compliance -- License auditing -- Providing the source code -- Providing compilation scripts and source code modifications -- Providing license text -- Summary -- 14. Booting Our Custom Embedded Linux -- Exploring the Wandboard -- Discovering Freescale ARM BSP -- Using Wandboard with the Yocto Project -- Building an image for Wandboard -- Booting Wandboard from the SD card -- Summary -- A. References -- Index.