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diff --git a/handbook/introduction.xml b/handbook/introduction.xml index 27427c97fa..95017c6a5b 100644 --- a/handbook/introduction.xml +++ b/handbook/introduction.xml @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ <para>Create a focused, stable, subset of OpenEmbedded that can be easily and reliably built and developed upon.</para> </listitem> <listitem> - <para>Fully support a wide range of x86 and ARM hardware and device virtulisation</para> + <para>Fully support a wide range of x86, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC hardware and device virtulisation</para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ based on open source software such as the Kdrive X server, the Matchbox window manager, the GTK+ toolkit and the D-Bus message bus system. Images for many kinds of devices can be generated, however the standard example - machines target QEMU full system emulation (both x86 and ARM) and the ARM based + machines target QEMU full system emulation(x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC) and the ARM based Sharp Zaurus series of devices. Poky's ability to boot inside a QEMU emulator makes it particularly suitable as a test platform for development of embedded software. @@ -83,7 +83,11 @@ of the components that make up Poky followed by information about using and debugging the Poky build system. The <link linkend='extendpoky'>'Extending Poky' section</link> gives information about how to extend and customise Poky along with advice - on how to manage these changes. The <link linkend='platdev'>'Platform Development with Poky' + on how to manage these changes. + The <link linkend='bsp'>'Board Support Packages (BSP) - Developers Guide' section</link> + gives information about how to develop BSP such as the common layout, the + software hardware configuration options etc. + The <link linkend='platdev'>'Platform Development with Poky' section</link> gives information about interaction between Poky and target hardware for common platform development tasks such as software development, debugging and profiling. The rest of the manual @@ -92,7 +96,7 @@ </para> <para> - This manual applies to Poky Release 3.1 (Pinky). + This manual applies to Poky Release 3.3 (Green). </para> </section> @@ -200,13 +204,14 @@ $ tar xjvf poky-green-3.3.tar.bz2 $ cd green-3.3/ $ source poky-init-build-env $ bitbake poky-image-sato +$ bitbake qemu-native $ runqemu qemux86 </literallayout> </para> <note> <para> - This process will need Internet access, about 3 GB of disk space + This process will need Internet access, about 20 GB of disk space available, and you should expect the build to take about 4 - 5 hours since it is building an entire Linux system from source including the toolchain! </para> @@ -266,8 +271,8 @@ $ apt-get install qemu poky-scripts Download a Poky QEMU release kernel (*zImage*qemu*.bin) and compressed filesystem image (poky-image-*-qemu*.ext2.bz2) which you'll need to decompress with 'bzip2 -d'. These are available from the - <ulink url='http://pokylinux.org/releases/blinky-3.0/'>last release</ulink> - or from the <ulink url='http://pokylinux.org/autobuild/poky/'>autobuilder</ulink>. + <ulink url='http://pokylinux.org/releases/green-3.3/'>last release</ulink> + or from the <ulink url='http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org/'>autobuilder</ulink>. </para> </listitem> <listitem> @@ -306,7 +311,7 @@ $ poky-qemu <kernel> <image> <para> We make nightly builds of Poky for testing purposes and to make the latest developments available. The output from these builds is available - at <ulink url='http://pokylinux.org/autobuild/'/> + at <ulink url='http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org/'/> where the numbers increase for each subsequent build and can be used to reference it. </para> @@ -316,7 +321,7 @@ $ poky-qemu <kernel> <image> be used either as external standalone toolchains or can be combined with Poky as a prebuilt toolchain to reduce build time. Using the external toolchains is simply a case of untarring the tarball into the root of your system (it only creates files in - <filename class="directory">/usr/local/poky</filename>) and then enabling the option + <filename class="directory">/opt/poky</filename>) and then enabling the option in <filename>local.conf</filename>. </para> |