Reference: Images
- Poky has several standard images covering most people's standard needs. A full
- list of image targets can be found by looking in the directories
- meta/recipes-core/images/,
- meta/recipes-extended/images/,
- meta/recipes-sato/images/ and
- meta/recipes-tbd/meta/. The standard
- images are listed below along with details of what they contain:
+ Poky has several standard images covering most people's standard needs.
+ Use the following command to list the supported images:
+
+ $ ls meta*/recipes*/images/*.bb
+
+ Images are listed below along with details of what they contain:
- poky-image-minimal - A small image, just enough
- to allow a device to boot
+ poky-image-minimal - A small image just capable
+ of allowing a device to boot.
- poky-image-base - console only image with full
- support of target device hardware
+ poky-image-base - A console-only image that fully
+ supports the target device hardware.
- poky-image-core - X11 image with simple apps like
- terminal, editor and file manager
+ poky-image-core - An X11 image with simple
+ applications such as terminal, editor, and file manager.
- poky-image-sato - X11 image with Sato theme and
- Pimlico applications. Also contains terminal, editor and file manager.
+ poky-image-sato - An X11 image with Sato theme and
+ Pimlico applications.
+ The image also contains terminal, editor, and file manager.
- poky-image-sdk - X11 image like poky-image-sato but
- also include native toolchain and libraries needed to build applications
- on the device itself. Also includes testing and profiling tools and debug
- symbols.
+ poky-image-sato-dev - An X11 image similar to
+ poky-image-sato but
+ also includes a native toolchain and libraries needed to build applications
+ on the device itself. The image also includes testing and profiling tools
+ as well as debug symbols. This image was formerly poky-image-sdk.
- meta-toolchain - This generates a tarball containing
- a standalone toolchain which can be used externally to Poky. It is self
- contained and unpacks to the /opt/poky
- directory. It also contains a copy of QEMU and the scripts necessary to run
+ poky-image-lsb - An image suitable for implementations
+ that conform to Linux Standard Base (LSB).
+
+
+
+
+ meta-toolchain - This image generates a tarball
+ that contains a stand-alone toolchain that can be used externally to Poky.
+ The tarball is self-contained and unpacks to the
+ /opt/poky directory.
+ The tarball also contains a copy of QEMU and the scripts necessary to run
poky QEMU images.
- meta-toolchain-sdk - This includes everything in
+ meta-toolchain-sdk - This image includes everything in
meta-toolchain but also includes development headers and libraries
- forming a complete standalone SDK. See the
+ to form a complete standalone SDK.
+ See the
External Development Using the Poky SDK section for more information.