Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook: Practical recipes to help you leverage the power of Yocto to build exciting Linux-based systems

Over 79 hands-on recipes for professional embedded Linux developers to optimize and boost their Yocto Project knowledge

Key Features

• Optimize your Yocto setup to speed up development and debug build issues
• Explore the Yocto Project and customize your root filesystem with Yocto packages
• Learn recipe-based implementation of best practices to optimize your Linux system

Book Description

The Yocto Project has become the standard embedded Linux product builder framework for reliable and robust embedded systems with a reduced time to market.

The Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook starts with a build system where you set up Yocto, create a build directory, and learn how to debug it. You'll explore the BSP layer—from creating a custom layer to debugging device tree issues. As you make your way through the book, you'll learn to add a new software layer, packages, and configuration files to your system. You will also cover topics based on application development, such as using the Software Development Kit and how to use the Yocto project in various development environments. In the concluding chapters, you will learn to debug, trace, and profile a running system.

By the end of this book, you will have progressed through the Yocto Project based on the latest Yocto release.

What you will learn

• Optimize your Yocto Project setup to speed up development and debug build issues
• Use Docker containers to build Yocto Project-based systems
• Learn to take advantage of the user-friendly Toaster web interface
• Build and debug the Linux kernel and its device trees
• Customize your root filesystem with already-supported and new Yocto packages
• Optimize your production systems by reducing the size of both the Linux kernel and root filesystems
• Explore mechanisms to increase the root filesystem security
• Create recipes and build and run applications in C, C++, Python, Node.js, and Java

Who This Book Is For

If you are an embedded Linux developer with basic knowledge of the Yocto Project, this book is an ideal way to broaden your knowledge with recipes for embedded development.

Table of Contents

1. The build system
2. The BSP layer
3. The software layer
4. Application development
5. Debugging, tracing and profiling