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@@ -1,70 +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 -texinfo -texi2html -cvs -subversion -gawk -bochsbios (to run qemux86 images) +Contributing +------------ -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. +Please refer to +http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/How_to_submit_a_patch_to_OpenEmbedded +for guidelines on how to submit patches. -Alternatively poky can build qemu itself, but for this you need the -following packages installed; +Mailing list: -gcc-3.4 -libsdl1.2-dev -zlib1g-dev + http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core -You will also need to comment out ASSUME_PROVIDED += "qemu-native"' in -build/conf/local.conf. +Source code: -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. + http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/ |