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This plugin creates a hybrid, legacy and EFI bootable ISO image. The generated image can be used on optical media as well as USB media. Legacy boot uses syslinux and EFI boot uses grub or gummiboot (not implemented yet) as bootloader. The plugin creates the directories required by bootloaders and populates them by creating and configuring the bootloader files. The plugin adds an image file to the iso which contains the directory tree of the rootfs folder specified by the --rootfs argument or by the IMAGE_ROOTFS bitbake variable. Using the isohybryd tool, the created .iso image is enhanced by a MBR for booting from disk storage devices, consequently the provided iso image could be copyed directly by dd comand onto USB drive or could be burned to an optical media by using a suitable image burner. The plugin depends on parted, e2fstools, syslinux, grub, cdrtools, dosfstools and mtools program. Some of the functions in this plugin were inspired from bootimg-efi.py and bootimg-pcbios.py plugins implemented by Tom Zanussi. (From OE-Core rev: 289c534b5d990e22e5547496f5f84cc9721ce3ee) Signed-off-by: Mihaly Varga <mihaly.varga@ni.com> Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@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 = "nodistro") 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 (built using a tool called combo-layer), patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams:
bitbake: Git repository: http://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/ Mailing list: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
documentation: Git repository: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/yocto-docs/ Mailing list: yocto@yoctoproject.org
meta-yocto(-bsp): Git repository: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-yocto(-bsp) Mailing list: poky@yoctoproject.org
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.
Git repository: http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/
Mailing list: 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.