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@@ -1,61 +1,29 @@ -Introduction -== +OpenEmbedded-Core +================= -'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. +OpenEmbedded-Core is a layer containing the core metadata for current versions +of OpenEmbedded. It is distro-less (can build a functional image with +DISTRO = "nodistro") and contains only emulated machine support. +For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website: + http://www.openembedded.org/ -Required Packages -=== +The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about OE including a reference manual +which can be found at: + http://yoctoproject.org/documentation -Running Poky on Debian based distributions requires the following -extra packages be installed; -build-essential -diffstat -texi2html -cvs -subversion -gawk +Contributing +------------ -You also need to install the qemu from http://debian.o-hand.com/. -Alternatively poky can build qemu itself, but for this you need the -following packages installed; +Please refer to +http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded +for guidelines on how to submit patches. -gcc-3.4 -libsdl1.2-dev -zlib1g-dev +Mailing list: -You will also need to comment out ASSUME_PROVIDED += "qemu-native"' in -build/conf/local.conf. + http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -Building under other distro's such as Fedora is known to work. Use the above -package names as a guide for dependencies. +Source code: -Building An Image -=== - -Simply run; - -% source poky-init-build-env -% bitbake oh-image-pda - -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 - -Notes: -=== - -Useful Links; - -OpenedHand -http://openedhand.com - -Poky Homepage -http://projects.o-hand.com/poky - -OE Homepage and wiki -http://openembedded.org - + http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/ |