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Long-term strategy for the YP Reference Manual is that it contains reference material and not "how-to-information". A step in this direction is to isolate any discussions on components and other areas of YP that need talked about. So to start with, I have created a new chapter for now named "Technical Details" that so far has a discussion of some components and shared state. This is a step in the direction of making this manual a reference manual and not a "how to" manual. Changes included removing redundant material from the 'usingpoky.xml' chapter and also adding the new chapter 'technical-details' into the 'poky-ref-manual.xml' file used for the make. (From yocto-docs rev: a01477f787768230bc25da2d094326922be23dd4) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Poky
Poky is an integration of various components to form a complete prepackaged build system and development environment. It features support for building customised embedded device style images. There are reference demo images featuring a X11/Matchbox/GTK themed UI called Sato. The system supports cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a standalone toolchain and SDK with 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 layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way.
As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation and various sources of information e.g. for the hardware support. Poky is in turn a component of the Yocto Project.
The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a reference manual which can be found at: http://yoctoproject.org/community/documentation
For information about OpenEmbedded see their website: http://www.openembedded.org/