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Reuses the mic/livecd infrastructure but heavily subclasses and modifies it to adapt to the special needs of building images from existing OpenEmbedded build artifacts. In addition to the OE-specific mic objects and modifications to the underlying infrastructure, this adds a mechanism to allow OE kickstart files to be 'canned' and made available to users via the 'wic list images' command. Two initial OE kickstart files have been added as canned .wks files: directdisk, which implements the same thing as the images created by directdisk.bbclass, and mkefidisk, which can essentially be used as a replacement for mkefidisk.sh. Of course, since creation of these images are now driven by .wks files rather than being hard-coded into class files or scripts, they can be easily modified to generate different variations on those images. They also don't require root priveleges, since they don't use mount to create the images. They don't however write to media like mkefidisk.sh does, but rather create images that can be written onto media. (From OE-Core rev: f87acc5e59d3c2c39ff171b5557977dab4c8f4a6) Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.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/documentation
OpenEmbedded-Core is a layer containing the core metadata for current versions of OpenEmbedded. It is distro-less (can build a functional image with DISTRO = "") and contains only emulated machine support.
For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website: http://www.openembedded.org/
Where to Send Patches
As Poky is an integration repository, patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams.
bitbake: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
meta-yocto: poky@yoctoproject.org
Most everything else should be sent to the OpenEmbedded Core mailing list. If in doubt, check the oe-core git repository for the content you intend to modify. Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current oe-core git repository. openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Note: The scripts directory should be treated with extra care as it is a mix of oe-core and poky-specific files.