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Yocto for Raspberry Pi

Yocto for Raspberry Pi

By : Pierre-Jean, Mabäcker
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Yocto for Raspberry Pi

Yocto for Raspberry Pi

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By: Pierre-Jean, Mabäcker

Overview of this book

The Yocto Project is a Linux Foundation workgroup, which produces tools (SDK) and processes (configuration, compilation, installation) that will enable the creation of Linux distributions for embedded software, independent of the architecture of embedded software (Raspberry Pi, i.MX6, and so on). It is a powerful build system that allows you to master your personal or professional development. This book presents you with the configuration of the Yocto Framework for the Raspberry Pi, allowing you to create amazing and innovative projects using the Yocto/ OpenEmbedded eco-system. It starts with the basic introduction of Yocto's build system, and takes you through the setup and deployment steps for Yocto. It then helps you to develop an understanding of Bitbake (the task scheduler), and learn how to create a basic recipe through a GPIO application example. You can then explore the different types of Yocto recipe elements (LICENSE, FILES, SRC_URI, and so on). Next, you will learn how to customize existing recipes in Yocto/OE layers and add layers to your custom environment (qt5 for example).
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
1. Meeting the Yocto Project
1. Meeting the Yocto Project
The Yocto Project
The core components
Yocto Project - workflow
Summary
2
2. Building our First Poky Image for the Raspberry Pi
2. Building our First Poky Image for the Raspberry Pi
Installing the required packages for the host system
Building the Poky image
Booting the image on the Raspberry Pi
Summary
3
3. Mastering Baking with Hob and Toaster
3. Mastering Baking with Hob and Toaster
Hob
Exploring Toaster
Summary
4
4. Understanding BitBake
4. Understanding BitBake
BitBake
Metadata
Parsing metadata
Preferences and providers
Dependencies
Fetching
Understanding BitBake's tasks
Summary
5
5. Creating, Developing, and Deploying on the Raspberry Pi
5. Creating, Developing, and Deploying on the Raspberry Pi
Software development kits (SDKs)
Raspberry Pi and a package manager
IPK packages
Our application - an introduction
Our application - creating the recipe
Summary
6
6. Working with External Layers
6. Working with External Layers
Introducing layers
The basic concepts of layers
Adding external layers to the Raspberry Pi
Summary
7
7. Deploying a Custom Layer on the Raspberry Pi
7. Deploying a Custom Layer on the Raspberry Pi
Creating the meta-packt_rpi layer with the yocto-layer script
Adding gpio-packt to meta-packt_rpi
Patching gpio-packt
Creating the raspberry-packt-image.bb image
Deploying the raspberry-packt-image.bb image
Summary
8
8. Diving into the Raspberry Pi's Peripherals and Yocto Recipes
8. Diving into the Raspberry Pi's Peripherals and Yocto Recipes
The SPI bus
The i2c bus
The Wii Nunchuck
The Raspberry Pi connection
Summary
9
9. Making a Media Hub on the Raspberry Pi
9. Making a Media Hub on the Raspberry Pi
Project description – CPU temperature monitoring
Creating the main application
Creating the Yocto/OE environment
Deploying raspberry-packt-image
Testing the application
The future of this project
Summary
10
10. Playing with an LCD Touchscreen and the Linux Kernel
10. Playing with an LCD Touchscreen and the Linux Kernel
The Linux kernel
Setting up an LCD display for the Raspberry Pi using the Yocto Project
Developing applications and using them on an LCD display
Summary
11
11. Contributing to the Raspberry Pi BSP Layer
11. Contributing to the Raspberry Pi BSP Layer
Open source
Contributing to open source projects
Exploring Git
Contributing to the Yocto Project
Summary
12
12. Home Automation Project - Booting a Custom Image
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12. Home Automation Project - Booting a Custom Image
Home automation using a Raspberry Pi
Setting up the base for the project
Creating the server side
Creating a packet list for your image
Putting it all together
Controlling the relay using the Raspberry Pi
Controlling the lamp using the Raspberry Pi
Turning on/off the lamp from a smartphone
Extra - using a Raspberry Pi with an LCD as the client
Summary

Creating a packet list for your image

One of the reasons you would want to create a customized image is that you often require a different set of packages than those used in existing images. When using the Yocto Project, it's possible to use a sort of package list, to make it easier for the end user to add new packages and to keep the image recipe as simple as possible. This section will guide your through how to use a customized package list using the Yocto Project.

Setting up a customized package list

First, you need to add a new BitBake file (.bb) named packagegroup-packt-iot.bb:

$ mkdir recipes-core/images/packagegroups
$ touch  packagegroup-packt-iot.bb

A typical package list will look something like this:

$ cat packagegroup-packt-iot.bb
DESCRIPTION = "Package list for packt-iot-image"
LICENSE = "MIT"
inherit packagegroup
RDEPENDS_${PN} += " \
pkg1 \
pkg2 \
pkg3 \
"

Start using a customized package list in meta-packt-iot

When our customized package list...

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