Because this manual presents overview information for many different topics, you will need to supplement it with other information. The following list presents other sources of information you might find helpful:
Yocto Project Website: The home page for the Yocto Project provides lots of information on the project as well as links to software and documentation.
Yocto Project Quick Start: This short document lets you get started with the Yocto Project quickly and start building an image.
Yocto Project Reference Manual: This manual is a reference guide to the OpenEmbedded build system known as "Poky."
Yocto Project Application Developer's Guide: This guide provides information that lets you get going with the Application Development Toolkit (ADT) and stand-alone cross-development toolchains to develop projects using the Yocto Project.
Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide: This guide defines the structure for BSP components. Having a commonly understood structure encourages standardization.
Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual: This manual describes how to work with Linux Yocto kernels as well as provides a bit of conceptual information on the construction of the Yocto Linux kernel tree.
Yocto Project Profiling and Tracing Manual: This manual presents a set of common and generally useful tracing and profiling schemes along with their applications (as appropriate) to each tool.
Eclipse IDE Yocto Plug-in: A step-by-step instructional video that demonstrates how an application developer uses Yocto Plug-in features within the Eclipse IDE.
FAQ: A list of commonly asked questions and their answers.
Release Notes: Features, updates and known issues for the current release of the Yocto Project.
Hob: A graphical user interface for BitBake. Hob's primary goal is to enable a user to perform common tasks more easily.
Build Appliance: A virtual machine that enables you to build and boot a custom embedded Linux image with the Yocto Project using a non-Linux development system. For more information, see the Build Appliance page.
Bugzilla: The bug tracking application the Yocto Project uses. If you find problems with the Yocto Project, you should report them using this application.
Yocto Project Mailing Lists: To subscribe to the Yocto Project mailing lists, click on the following URLs and follow the instructions:
http://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto for a Yocto Project Discussions mailing list.
http://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/poky for a Yocto Project Discussions mailing list about the OpenEmbedded build system (Poky).
http://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto-announce for a mailing list to receive official Yocto Project announcements for developments and as well as Yocto Project milestones.
http://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo for a
listing of all public mailing lists on lists.yoctoproject.org
.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
Two IRC channels on freenode are available
for Yocto Project and Poky discussions: #yocto
and
#poky
, respectively.
OpenEmbedded: The build system used by the Yocto Project. This project is the upstream, generic, embedded distribution from which the Yocto Project derives its build system (Poky) from and to which it contributes.
BitBake: The tool used by the OpenEmbedded build system to process project metadata.
BitBake User Manual:
A comprehensive guide to the BitBake tool.
If you want information on BitBake, see the user manual included in the
bitbake/doc/manual
directory of the
Source Directory.
Quick EMUlator (QEMU): An open-source machine emulator and virtualizer.