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<chapter id='intro'>
<title>Introduction</title>
<section id='intro-welcome'>
<title>Welcome to Poky!</title>
<para>
Poky is the build tool in Yocto Project.
Yocto Project uses Poky to build images (kernel, system, and application software) for
targeted hardware.
</para>
<para>
Before diving into Poky, it helps to have an understanding of the Yocto Project.
Especially useful for newcomers is the information in the Yocto Project Quick Start, which
you can find on the <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org">Yocto Project website</ulink>.
Specifically, the guide is
at <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/yocto-quick-start/yocto-project-qs.html"/>.
</para>
</section>
<section id='what-is-poky'>
<title>What is Poky?</title>
<para>
Within the Yocto Project, Poky provides an open source, full-platform build tool based on
Linux, X11, Matchbox, GTK+, Pimlico, Clutter,
and other <ulink url='http://gnome.org/mobile'>GNOME Mobile</ulink> technologies.
It provides a focused and stable subset of OpenEmbedded upon which you can easily and
reliably build and develop.
Poky fully supports a wide range of x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC hardware and device virtualization.
</para>
<para>
Poky is primarily a platform builder that generates filesystem images
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. While images
for many kinds of devices can be generated, the standard example
machines target QEMU full-system emulation (x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC) and
real reference boards for each of these architectures.
Poky's ability to boot inside a QEMU
emulator makes it particularly suitable as a test platform for developing embedded software.
</para>
<para>
An important component integrated within Poky is Sato, a GNOME Mobile-based
user interface environment.
It is designed to work well with screens that use very high DPI and have restricted
sizes, such as those often found on smartphones and PDAs.
Because Sato is coded for speed and efficiency, it works smoothly on hand-held and
other embedded hardware.
It sits nicely on top of any device that uses the GNOME Mobile stack and it results in
a well-defined user experience.
</para>
<screenshot>
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="screenshots/ss-sato.png" format="PNG" align='center' scalefit='1' width="100%" contentdepth="100%"/>
</imageobject>
<caption>
<para>The Sato Desktop - A screenshot from a machine running a Poky built image</para>
</caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
<para>
Poky has a growing open source community and is also backed up by commercial organizations
including <ulink url="http://www.intel.com/">Intel Corporation</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-manualoverview'>
<title>Documentation Overview</title>
<para>
The sections in this reference manual describe different aspects of Poky.
The <link linkend='usingpoky'>'Using Poky'</link> section provides an overview of the components
that make up Poky followed by information about using Poky and debugging images created in Yocto Project.
The <link linkend='extendpoky'>'Extending Poky'</link> and
<link linkend='bsp'>'Board Support Packages'</link> sections provide information
about how to extend and customize Poky along with advice on how to manage these changes.
The <link linkend='platdev'>'Platform Development with Poky'</link> section provides 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 consists of several reference sections, each providing details on a specific
area of Poky functionality.
</para>
<para>
This manual applies to Poky Release 4.0 (laverne).
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-requirements'>
<title>System Requirements</title>
<para>
Although we recommend Debian-based distributions
(Ubuntu 10.04 or newer) as the host system for Poky, nothing in Poky is
distribution-specific. Consequently, other distributions should work as long
as the appropriate prerequisites are installed. For example, we know of Poky being used
successfully on Redhat, SUSE, Gentoo and Slackware host systems.
For information on what you need to develop images using Yocto Project and Poky,
you should see the Yocto Project Quick Start on the <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org">
Yocto Project website</ulink>.
The direct link to the quick start is
<ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/docs/yocto-quick-start/yocto-project-qs.html'/>.
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-getit'>
<title>Obtaining Poky</title>
<section id='intro-getit-releases'>
<title>Releases</title>
<para>Periodically, we make releases of Poky available
at <ulink url='http://pokylinux.org/releases/'/>.
These releases are more stable and more rigorously tested than the nightly development images.
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-getit-nightly'>
<title>Nightly Builds</title>
<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://autobuilder.pokylinux.org/'/>.
The numbers used in the builds increase for each subsequent build and can be used to
reference a specific build.
</para>
<para>
Automated builds are available for "standard" Poky and for Poky SDKs and toolchains.
Additionally, testing versions such as poky-bleeding can be made available as
'experimental' builds.
The toolchains can
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>/opt/poky</filename>) and then enabling the option
in <filename>local.conf</filename>.
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-getit-dev'>
<title>Development Checkouts</title>
<para>
Poky is available from our git repository located at
git://git.pokylinux.org/poky.git; a web interface to the repository
can be accessed at <ulink url='http://git.pokylinux.org/'/>.
</para>
<para>
The 'master' is where the deveopment work takes place and you should use this if you're
interested in working with the latest cutting-edge developments. It is possible for the trunk
to suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed.
If these periods of instability are undesireable, we recommend using one of the release branches.
</para>
</section>
</section>
</chapter>
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