Images
- The images produced by the OpenEmbedded build system
- are compressed forms of the
- root filesystem that are ready to boot on a target device.
+ The images produced by the build system are compressed forms
+ of the root filesystem and are ready to boot on a target
+ device.
You can see from the
general workflow figure
that BitBake output, in part, consists of images.
@@ -1959,15 +1959,15 @@
-
+
For a list of example images that the Yocto Project provides,
see the
"Images"
chapter in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
-
+
- Images are written out to the
+ The build process writes images out to the
Build Directory
inside the
tmp/deploy/images/machine/
@@ -1983,7 +1983,7 @@
for the current configuration.
- kernel-image:
+ kernel-image:
A kernel binary file.
The
KERNEL_IMAGETYPE
@@ -1992,12 +1992,12 @@
Depending on that variable, the file could begin with
a variety of naming strings.
The
- deploy/images/machine
+ deploy/images/machine
directory can contain multiple image files for the
machine.
- root-filesystem-image:
+ root-filesystem-image:
Root filesystems for the target device (e.g.
*.ext3 or
*.bz2 files).
@@ -2006,12 +2006,12 @@
variable setting determines the root filesystem image
type.
The
- deploy/images/machine
+ deploy/images/machine
directory can contain multiple root filesystems for the
machine.
- kernel-modules:
+ kernel-modules:
Tarballs that contain all the modules built for the
kernel.
Kernel module tarballs exist for legacy purposes and
@@ -2019,22 +2019,22 @@
MODULE_TARBALL_DEPLOY
variable to "0".
The
- deploy/images/machine
+ deploy/images/machine
directory can contain multiple kernel module tarballs
for the machine.
- bootloaders:
- Bootloaders supporting the image, if applicable to the
- target machine.
- The deploy/images/machine
+ bootloaders:
+ If applicable to the target machine, bootloaders
+ supporting the image.
+ The deploy/images/machine
directory can contain multiple bootloaders for the
machine.
- symlinks:
+ symlinks:
The
- deploy/images/machine
+ deploy/images/machine
folder contains a symbolic link that points to the
most recently built file for each machine.
These links might be useful for external scripts that