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@@ -1,70 +1,15 @@ -Introduction -== +Poky +==== -'Poky' is a combined cross build system and linux distribution based -upon OpenEmbedded. It features support for building X11/Matchbox/GTK -based filesystem images for various embedded devices and boards. +Poky platform builder is a combined cross build system and development +environment. It features support for building X11/Matchbox/GTK based +filesystem images for various embedded devices and boards. It also +supports cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation +and a standalone toolchain and SDK with IDE integration. +Poky has an extensive handbook, the source of which is contained in +the handbook directory. For compiled HTML or pdf versions of this, +see the Poky website http://pokylinux.org. -Required Packages -=== - -Running Poky on Debian based distributions requires the following -extra packages be installed; - -build-essential -diffstat -texinfo -texi2html -cvs -subversion -gawk -bochsbios (to run qemux86 images) - -You also need to install the qemu from http://debian.o-hand.com/. A -poky-depends deb is also available from this source which will install -all the dependencies mentioned above for you. - -Alternatively poky can build qemu itself, but for this you need the -following packages installed; - -gcc-3.4 -libsdl1.2-dev -zlib1g-dev - -You will also need to comment out ASSUME_PROVIDED += "qemu-native"' in -build/conf/local.conf. - -Building under other distro's such as Fedora is known to work. Use the above -package names as a guide for dependencies. - -Building An Image -=== - -Simply run; - -% source poky-init-build-env -% bitbake poky-image-sato - -This will result in an ext2 image and kernel for qemu arm (see scripts dir). - -To build for other machine types see MACHINE in build/conf/local.conf - -Other image targets such as poky-image-sdk or poky-image-minimal are available, -see meta/packages/images/*. - -Notes: -=== - -Useful Links; - -OpenedHand -http://openedhand.com - -Poky Homepage -http://projects.o-hand.com/poky - -OE Homepage and wiki -http://openembedded.org - - Copyright (C) 2006-2007 OpenedHand Ltd. +Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports +is available in README.hardware. |