Base Platform

PELUX as a platform is compiled from a lot of different projects with help of Yocto. In the long run a platform developer will need to get comfortable reading their documentation but it should be enough to read the chapters here to get started.

• Prerequisites for building a PELUX image
  • Dependencies for Debian users
• Using the repo tool
  • Obtaining the repo tool
• Manifests
  • Repo feature overview
  • Using repo with yocto
  • Example
  • Using the repo tool
• Building PELUX sources
  • A note on development images
  • Building locally
    • Available images
    • Building the image
  • Building with Vagrant
    • Dependencies:
    • Procedure:
• Reproducible Yocto builds
  • Intro
  • The AUTOREV problem
  • Building with BB_NO_NETWORK
  • Configuring Yocto builds for reproducibility
  • Saving the repo manifest
  • Reproducing the Yocto build
• Deploying the image
  • General instructions
  • Image names for PELUX targets
• Booting on target hardware
  • NUC
  • Raspberry Pi 3
  • QEMU
• Building the SDK installer
• Creating a manifest
  • Creating a git repo for a PELUX-based manifest
  • Tweaking the manifest files
• Creating a new layer
  • Using Poky scripts for generating the layer
    • Modifying the output of yocto-layer
  • Using the new layer in a build
    • Using TEMPLATECONF
    • Including some software in your layer
  • Suggested practices
    • Using a variable for the SRC_URI base
    • Optionally depending on other layers
• Variant concept in Yocto
  • Recommended variant management
  • Recommended usage of variants
• Replacing packagegroups by hand-picked components