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Y12 Comprehensive Yocto Project Usage

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Objectives
  • Using and customizing Yocto
  • Creating Yocto-based Embedded Linux platforms
  • Using Yocto to develop components
  • Customizing the BSP
  • Building out of tree modules
  • Setup Source cache
Labs are conducted QEMU ARM-based board
We use a recent version of Yocto
Prerequisite
Course environment
  • Printed course material (in English)
  • One Linux PC for two trainees.
  • One target platform for two trainees

First Day
Introduction to Yocto
  • Overview of Yocto
    • History
    • Yocto, Open Embedded and Poky
    • Purpose of the Yocto project
    • The main projects
  • Yocto architecture
    • Overview
    • Recipes and classes
    • Tasks
The Yocto build system
  • Build system objectives
    • Building deployable images
    • Layers and layer priorities
    • Directory layout
    • Configuration files (local, machine and distribution)
    • The bitbake tool
  • Using Yocto
    • Building a package
    • Building an image (root file system + u-boot + kernel)
  • Miscellaneous tools around Yocto
    • Yocto SDK
    • Extensible SDK
Exercise:  Building a root file system using Yocto
Exercise:  Use bitbake commands to build package & images
Exercise:  Building a root file system using Yocto
Exercise:  Build an extensible SDK for the generated image
Exercise:  Deploy the generated image
Yocto package recipes structure
  • Recipe architecture
    • Tasks
    • Task dependencies
    • Recipe dependencies
  • The bitbake language
    • Standard variables and functions
    • Classes and recipes
    • The base Yocto classes
    • Main bitbake commands
  • Adding a new layer
    • Layer structure
    • Various kinds of layers
Exercise:  Adding a new layer
Second Day
Writing package recipes for Yocto
  • Various kind of recipes and classes
    • Bare program
    • Makefile-based package
    • autotools-based package
    • u-boot
    • kernel
    • Out-of-tree module
  • Recipe creation strategies
    • From scratch
    • Using devtool
    • Using recipetool
    • From an existing, similar, recipe
  • Debugging recipes
    • Debugging recipe selection
    • Debugging dependencies
    • Debugging tasks
  • Defining packaging
    • Package splitting
  • Automatically starting a program
Exercise:  Writing a recipe for a local user-maintained package
Exercise:  Writing and debugging a package recipe for an autotools-based package
Exercise:  Starting a program at boot (systemd)
Modifying recipes
  • Customizing an existing package recipe (.bbappend)
  • Recipe dependencies
  • Creating and adding patches
    • Creating a patch for a community-provided component
    • Creating a patch for an user-maintained component
  • Defining new tasks
    • Task declaration
    • Coding tasks
Exercise:  Adding patches and dependencies to a community package
Exercise:  Adding a rootfsinstall task to directly copy the output of a user package in the rootfs image
Third Day
Creating new kinds of recipes
  • Creating classes
    • Creating new independent classes
    • Inheriting from an existing class
Exercise:  Create a class to generalize the “rootfsinstall” task
Creating a root file system
  • Building a root file system with Yocto
    • Creating a custom root file system
  • Writing an image recipe
    • Selecting the packages to build
    • Selecting the file system types
    • The various kinds of images
  • Inheriting and customizing images
    • Customizing system configuration files (network, mount points, …)
  • Users and groups management
  • Package management
    • rpm
    • opkg
Exercise:  Writing and building an image recipe
Exercise:  Add new users to the image
Exercise:  Create an image with package support for OTA deployment
Exercise:  Test OTA update on the generated image
Fourth Day
Development process using the extensible SDK and devtool
  • Using devtool to create a package and its recipe
  • Using devtool to modify an existing package and recipe
  • Using devtool to update a recipe to build a new version of a package
Exercise:  Create, test and modify a recipe for an existing package using devtool
Develop and debug applications using SDK and eclipse
  • Adding eclipse remote debug packages
  • Configuring eclipse
Exercise:  Create remote debugging session using eclipse
Writing tasks in python
  • Introduction to python
  • Using python in Yocto
    • The main bitbake classes
    • Defining variable values in Python
    • Writing tasks in Python
Exercise:  Writing a task and customizing a recipe in Python
Porting Yocto
  • Porting Yocto to a new board
  • BSP architecture
    • Selecting and configuring u-boot recipe
    • Selecting and configuring kernel recipe
  • Adding a new BSP layer (yocto-bsp create)
Exercise:  Creating a new BSP layer
Fifth Day
BSP Development
  • Adding a custom u-boot to Yocto
  • Customizing the Yocto kernel recipe
    • Setting the default configuration
    • Adding patches
    • Specifying the kernel sources
  • Configuring Linux Kernel
    • Using menuconfig
    • Using patches
    • Creating Configuration Fragments
    • Validating Configuration
  • Kernel device tree
Exercise:  Create u-boot and kernel recipes to use custom versions, test the result
Exercise:  Patch kernel and activate new options using a fragment
Exercise:  Create and use a new device tree
Out-of-Tree Modules
  • Adding modules to image
  • Creating an out-of-tree module
  • Kernel modules with eSDK
Exercise:  Build and test modules
Tailoring the build system
  • Setting up a Yocto source cache
    • Local, per system, cache setup
    • Setting up a global, network wide, cache
  • Customizing the build system
    • Using a prebuilt toolchain
    • Using a pre-compiled kernel
  • Optimizing Yocto build times
    • Using prebuilt, binary, packages
    • Using shared compilation caches
Exercise:  Setting up a global source cache
Exercise:  Setting up an optimized build environment and rebuilding an image