Yocto Project - workflow

The following diagram represents the Yocto Project development environment at a high level in order to present the cross-compilation framework:

Yocto Project - workflow

Let's look at what the components in the diagram stand for:

  • * User Configuration: This is metadata you can use to control the build process.
  • * Metadata layers: These are various layers that provide software, machine, and distribution metadata.
  • * Source files: These contain upstream releases, local projects, and source control management (Git, SVN, and so on).
  • * Build system: These are processes under the control of BitBake. This block expands on how BitBake fetches source files, applies ...

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