[yocto] Documenting YP Development Environment in more detail

[Bill Traynor]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:41 AM, Rudolf Streif
<rstreif at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

FWIW, I'm incorporating a HelloWorld chapter into the new BitBake
manual.  It builds on your post of the same that you made to the
mailing list.

>
> Cheers,
> Rudi
>
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