[yocto] Why use Yocto?

[Maxim Radugin]

Hi Marlon,

Some more points to vote for yocto:
1) ability to switch to another board easily (even with different arch)
just by switching the BSP layer and optionally doing some kernel and
bootloader config;
2) you can switch between package versions you want to use, plus fine-tune
and patch them for your specific needs;

As the downside of Yocto I can mention that "baking" process is quite time
and resource intensive.

BR,
Maxim.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Marlon Smith <marlon.smith10 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  Hi everyone,
>
> I'm developing a product that will run on a custom i.MX6 board and I'm
> trying to decide whether to use Yocto or Ubuntu (there's a version of
> Ubuntu packaged for the Wandboard that will run on our board).  The board
> will run our own custom app, and we'll modify the Linux kernel to support
> our hardware.
>
> Ubuntu seems like it would be ready to go - just put it on an SD card,
> boot the board, compile the app and create a new SD card image from the
> result to use for manufacturing.
>
> Yocto seems like it would be easier to remove unneeded packages from, and
> easier to cross-compile the application for.  This means we could have a
> smaller SD card image in the end.
>
> What are your thoughts on this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Marlon
>
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