[yocto] Is Yocto the right fit for my project?

[Josef Holzmayr]

Howdy!

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 01:12:52PM +0000, Richard Barrass wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a lead engineer on project where we run a well-known Linux distribution on-top of a SBC (Intel Quad Pentium processor based) driving a 27" display. We have a 32GB SSD to run from, which we partition with multiple EXT4 partitions to help with potential corruption mitigation if the device is switched off 'hard'.
> 
> But, with the well-known Linux distribution comes a lot of things we don't need, plus the potential ability to 'break' in to our application which is running full-screen.
> 
> We basically need
> 
> QT 5.12 runtime (our application)
> SSH
> OpenVPN
> Wifi
> Ethernet
> Modem (via Telit modem)
> USB-ACM
> USB-Memory stick
> 
> Is this something I should be looking to the yocto project for, or should I be looking at a more 'traditional' custom linux distro.

Certainly doable.

> 
> The only other aspect, is that we have future plans to cost reduce the application to be running on a Pi based, 10" display system ...

If thats a set goal, then it makes YP even more interesting for you.

> 
> Any thoughts and ideas would be appreciated.

Prepare for a steep learning curve and a lot of headshaking each time
you say "but I just want to". But you will be rewarded with an awesome
amount of control and power if you make it through.

Have a look at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD4M5FoHz-TxMfBFrDKfIS_GLY25Qsfyj
to get an idea how things work.

Greetz

> 
> Regards
> Richard
> 
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