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Fixes [YOCTO #1806] Standard practice is to use the Linux "dd" command to write images to boot media. This can be error prone and the results of sloppy usage can be disastrous. Locating the device you want to use is a clumsy process, especially on a headless build system. The ddimage script does the following: o Check the image and device exist o Check the device is writable o Compare the device to a blacklist and abort if it's listed Blacklist defaults to "/dev/sda" o Display useful identifying information about the image and device o Prompt the user before commencing the write The output looks something like this: $ sudo ~/bin/ddimage tmp/deploy/images/core-image-sato-fri2-noemgd.hddimg /dev/sdk Image details ============= image: `tmp/deploy/images/core-image-sato-fri2-noemgd.hddimg' -> `core-image-sato-fri2-noemgd-20111202214038.hddimg' size: 318568448 bytes modified: 2011-12-02 13:45:05.298897861 -0800 type: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x58, OEM-ID "SYSLINUX", sectors/cluster 16, root entries 512, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/FAT 152, heads 64, hidden sectors 32, sectors 622204 (volumes > 32 MB) , serial number 0x4ed946e0, label: "boot ", FAT (16 bit) Device details ============== device: /dev/sdk vendor: Kingston model: DT 101 G2 Write tmp/deploy/images/core-image-sato-fri2-noemgd.hddimg to /dev/sdk [y/N]? y Writing image... 303+1 records in 303+1 records out 318568448 bytes (319 MB) copied, 53.6766 s, 5.9 MB/s (From OE-Core rev: 87e581bb7da9f1530d190cd023fcf892c8b858f5) Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com> CC: Dexuan Cui <dexuan.cui@intel.com> CC: Joshua Lock <josh@linux.intel.com> CC: Kishore K Bodke <kishore.k.bodke@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
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/