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[YOCTO #1398] Firstly we should start checking if MACHINE is set. It if isn't lets make this a sanity warning since its very hard to successfully build without setting one (and anyone wanting to do that can disable the sanity checks easily enough anyway). Some of the checks depend on a MACHINE being specified. This change moves those checks to a separate function so they only run if MACHINE has been set correctly. Both these issues combine to ensure the user sees a sane message and avoids the nasty tracebacks in the bug report referenced above. (From OE-Core rev: 02aceca132f9e259cdc5283c4bfe84e6a55df54d) 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/