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First, this is likely not the final implementation, but a RFC and prototype. Some binaries don't dynamically link to libraries, but instead at runtime dlopen() them. This means extra work for distributions as the dependencies are not detected automatically, so libraries may be missing. systemd is one such project which does this, and in an attempt to solve the packaging problem it also embeds the names of the libraries that can potentially be opened at runtime into ELF notes. These can be read to generate package dependencies. For example: packages/cortexa57-poky-linux/systemd/libsystemd-shared: RRECOMMENDS: added "libkmod (['>= 33']) libzstd (['>= 1.5.6'])" packages/cortexa57-poky-linux/systemd/libsystemd: RRECOMMENDS: added "libzstd (['>= 1.5.6'])" I expect this code to be changed before merging. Whilst systemd is the main user of his approach right now, I expect to see it used in more places in the future so there's a reasonably good argument to merge it into the core shlibs code. Also it currently manually extracts and parses the data, whereas maybe we should incorporate pyelftools into meta/lib/oe and use that to parse ELF files across all of OE. This also means we can remove the explicit dependency on libkmod in udev, which now comes in via libsystemd-shared. (From OE-Core rev: 905da779bcfe98f105adac708e0045ce8ffe5636) Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Poky
Poky is an integration of various components to form a pre-packaged build system and development environment which is used as a development and validation tool by the Yocto Project. It features support for building customised embedded style device images and custom containers. There are reference demo images ranging from X11/GTK+ to Weston, commandline and more. The system supports cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a standalone toolchain and SDK suitable for IDE integration.
Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports is available in README.hardware. Further hardware support can easily be added in the form of BSP layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way. Many layers are available and can be found through the layer index.
As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation, the 'meta-yocto' layer which has configuration and hardware support components. These components are all part of the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded ecosystems.
The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a reference manual which can be found at https://docs.yoctoproject.org/
OpenEmbedded is the build architecture used by Poky and the Yocto project. For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website.
Contribution Guidelines
Please refer to our contributor guide here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/contributor-guide/ for full details on how to submit changes.
Where to Send Patches
As Poky is an integration repository (built using a tool called combo-layer), patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams:
OpenEmbedded-Core (files in meta/, meta-selftest/, meta-skeleton/, scripts/):
- Git repository: https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/
- Mailing list: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
BitBake (files in bitbake/):
- Git repository: https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/
- Mailing list: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Documentation (files in documentation/):
- Git repository: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/
- Mailing list: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
meta-yocto (files in meta-poky/, meta-yocto-bsp/):
- Git repository: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto
- Mailing list: poky@lists.yoctoproject.org
If in doubt, check the openembedded-core git repository for the content you intend to modify as most files are from there unless clearly one of the above categories. Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current git repository branch in question.