[yocto] Documenting YP Development Environment in more detail - user configuration

Philip Balister philip at balister.org
Mon Jun 24 11:25:38 PDT 2013


On 06/24/2013 12:59 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 24 June 2013 17:55, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org> wrote:
>> Explaining how poky is built up from oe-core + meta-yocto +
>> meta-yocto-bsp + some other stuff would be really helpful in reducing
>> confusion over what all the pieces are and where they come from.
> 
> Agreed - explaining clearly that Poky is mostly an aggregation of
> existing repositories and not actually canonical upstream for anything
> is probably a good move, as this is clearly misunderstood by many
> people.

Showing how Poky (the reference distribution) is built would be a nice
way to introduce people to building their own custom distributions using
OpenEmbedded.

Philip



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