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An open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture

The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation workgroup defined as:

The Yocto Project provides open source, high-quality infrastructure and tools to help developers create their own custom Linux distributions for any hardware architecture, across multiple market segments. The Yocto Project is intended to provide a helpful starting point for developers.

The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help us create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture.

It was founded in 2010 as a collaboration among many hardware manufacturers, open-source operating systems vendors, and electronics companies to bring some order to the chaos of embedded Linux development.

In conclusion, Yocto Project is a a community open source project that is a combination of communities, companies, projects, and tools, and gather people with the same purpose to build Linux-based embedded Project.

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Yocto bitbake script not displaying echo statement

I currently have a bitbake .bb script that looks like this DESCRIPTION = "Hello World" SECTION = "TESTING" LICENSE = "MIT" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302" PR = "r0" SRC_URI = "file://fileA…
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What are the differences between Open Embedded Core and meta-openembedded

Until now, I am still really confused between the recipes in Openembedded-core vs the one in meta-openembedded. And many time, have trouble to put the recipes in the right directory. They are really similar yet seem to be so different in the…
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How to create do_populate_sysroot_append task in yocto

How could we add some additional kernel files to sysroot directory? I want to extend do_populate_sysroot task, how can we to copy few more files into sysroot after do_populate_sysroot and before do_package? I tried to create…
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How can I create machine specific recipes?

I want to know if there is an opportunity to create machine specific recipes just by file name in order that I have a similar layer structure like this: \-> recipes-example \-> example \-> example_1.0.bb_machine1 \->…
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How can I add a folder or file to the root in a recipe with bitbake?

I am trying to put a folder into the root of the filesystem. In the documentation (e.g. here) they use mostly variables and so the files and folders from SRC_URI result in being stored under /usr/bin or something but never in /. So here is my…
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How to find out Yocto version

How to find the current version of Yocto kernel that I am using to build the components. There is a version for poky. But i want to know the Yocto kernel version.
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Yocto Kirkstone Beaglebone Black add custom devicetree

When I build a core-image using Yocto Kirkstone for machine beaglebone-yocto, I get a file /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf. This file looks like: default Yocto label Yocto kernel /zImage fdtdir / append root=PARTUUID=f8fbccd5-02 rootwait…
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Yocto build fail with exit code '134'

I am trying to yocto build on wsl2 and face these kinds of errors whenever I try to build. ERROR: Task (/home/minwoo/yocto/poky/meta/recipes-core/initscripts/initscripts_1.0.bb:do_install) failed with exit code '134' ERROR: Task…
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Yocto native build of some recipes for 32 bit on 64bit system

I am trying to build some native packages as 32bit in yocto (2.6.1 actually, on a 64bit linux). My target does not use multilib at all. Let's say I am building recipe a which needs (all build-time, linking statically) package b as well as zlib and…
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What's the difference between IMAGE_INSTALL and CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL

It seems both (IMAGE_INSTALL and CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL) can add packages into yocto image. What's their difference? I checked this issue: Yocto: Difference between CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL and IMAGE_INSTALL but I still don't understand what's…
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Differences between openembedded-core and poky

We want to build a embedded Linux device using Yocto which is SELinux Enabled. I was looking at meta-selinux layer Dependencies. Dependencies This layer depends on the openembedded-core metadata and the meta-python and meta-oe layers from the…
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Add New Kernel Parameter To Custom Linux Image Generated By Yocto

I am experimenting with Yocto project for generating custom Linux images for my embedded devices. I have a requirement to add a persistent custom kernel parameter to /etc/sysctl.conf of the generated image. i.e. kernel.core_pipe_limit =…
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Upgrading (overriding) an entire recipe in a custom layer

I have a custom layer in project. This gets shared with colleagues. My distro (poky) it uses a older version of alsa. This gets downloaded on initial setup of the build area. I would like to 'replace' that version of alsa with a later version…
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In Yocto, how to read a git repository via ssh on a nonstandard port

I created a recipe containing these definitions: SRC_URI = "git://git:@:/home/git/tuxin-repo/project.git;protocol=ssh;branch=test" SRCREV_default = "5a0b8545d39c97bd9f9628143ed174dabb71f641" bitbake ends with…
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How to create a custom partition layout using yocto wic?

This might be a fairly simple question, there is a few things I'm missing. I'm trying to use wic as a replacement for a custom script for laying out a boot partition. The device is an IMX6 and has uboot written at 0x400, and a fat32 boot partition…
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