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Over 79 hands-on recipes for professional embedded Linux developers to optimize and boost their Yocto Project know-how
Key Features
Optimize your Yocto setup to speed up development and debug build issues
Use what is quickly becoming the standard embedded Linux product builder framework-the Yocto Project
Recipe-based implementation of best practices to optimize your Linux system
Book Description
The Yocto Project has become the de facto distribution build framework for reliable and robust embedded systems with a reduced time to market.
You'll get started by working on a build system where you set up Yocto, create a build directory, and learn how to debug it. Then, you'll explore everything about the BSP layer, from creating a custom layer to debugging device tree issues. In addition to this, you'll learn how to add a new software layer, packages, data, scripts, and configuration files to your system. You will then cover topics based on application development, such as using the Software Development Kit and how to use the Yocto project in various development environments. Toward the end, you will learn how to debug, trace, and profile a running system. This second edition has been updated to include new content based on the latest Yocto release.
What you will learn
Optimize your Yocto Project setup to speed up development and debug build issues
Use Docker containers to build Yocto Project-based systems
Take advantage of the user-friendly Toaster web interface to the Yocto Project build system
Build and debug the Linux kernel and its device trees
Customize your root filesystem with already-supported and new Yocto packages
Optimize your production systems by reducing the size of both the Linux kernel and root filesystems
Explore the mechanisms to increase the root filesystem security
Understand the open source licensing requirements and how to comply with them when cohabiting with proprietary programs
Create recipes, and build and run applications in C, C++, Python, Node.js, and Java
About the author
Alex González is software engineering supervisor at Digi International and one of the maintainers of the Digi Embedded Yocto distribution. He started working professionally with embedded systems in 1999 and the Linux kernel in 2004, designing products for voice and video over IP networks, and followed his interests into machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies and the Internet of Things. Born and raised in Bilbao, Spain, Alex has his second home in the UK, where he lived for over 10 years and received his MSc in communication systems from the University of Portsmouth. He currently lives in La Rioja, where he enjoys photography and a good Riojan wine.
