[yocto] Documenting YP Development Environment in more detail

[Rudolf Streif]

Hi Trever et al:



> If I were writing a book about Yocto/OE,


This is a project I am currently working on, a book about the Yocto
Project. The goal is to enable readers to do practical projects with YP. As
the subject matter for the project described in the book I have chosen a
home automation project. Reason being, it interests me personally and it
uses different devices such as a UI-less controller, remotes with touch
screens etc.

I have gotten a lot of feedback from the YP training class I have developed
and been teaching for the Linux Foundation. I am putting this out here to
solicit more feedback from the community on what you think a book on YP
should include. For instance as an advanced topic I included a chapter on
how to run YP on AWS EC2 and I will be adding Autobuilder to it too.


> in the first chapter I would
> have the readers build their own filesystem/kernel from scratch (I
> can't decide if I would also have them build their own cross-compiler
> from scratch or if I'd cheat and let them use crosstool-NG).


I thought about that too but I found it distracting. It's like "let me show
you the hard way with crosstool-ng and buildroot and then I show you a
better way with YP." What I am doing though is an intro into Bitbake: how
to use just Bitbake to build something. That proved valuable during the
training classes. It's like a HelloWorld (and I published that before on
this mailing list) introducing the concepts of Bitbake with it's layers,
recipes, syntax etc.


Cheers,
Rudi
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