Chapter 1. Meeting the Yocto Project
In this chapter, we will discover the Yocto Project and its main principles. All the concepts used throughout the book will be introduced here. We will discuss the history of the Yocto Project, the build system, Poky, OpenEmbedded-Core, BitBake, metadata, and the Yocto Project workflow.
The Yocto Project
The Yocto Project is an umbrella project covering a fairly wide gamut of embedded Linux technologies. It is not a Linux distribution, as explained on the Yocto Project website:
"The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture."
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