Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

H M Irfan Sadiq

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781785289736
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Open Source Programming
• Index: Computer Science

Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

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Table of Contents

Using Yocto Project with BeagleBone Black

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Welcome to Yocto Project and BeagleBone Black

Setting up a host environment

Essentials

Graphics

Documentation

ADT Installer Extras

Obtaining Yocto Project

Let's build for BeagleBone

Local.conf

bblayers.conf

site.conf

auto.conf

Trigger build

Creating partitions and formatting the SD card

Copying images to the card

Hardware setup

Serial setup

Booting BeagleBone

More about configuration files

machine.conf

bitbake.conf

Standard target filesystem paths

Architecture-dependent build variables

Package default variables

General work and output directories for the build system

Specific image creation and rootfs population information

Build flags and options

Download locations and utilities

Including the rest of the config files

Summary

2. What's BitBake All About?

A brief history of BitBake

Legacy tools and BitBake

Cross-compilation

Resolving inter-package dependencies

Variety of target distribution

Coupling to build systems

Variety of build systems distros

Variety of architecture

Exploit parallelism

Easy to use, extend, and collaborate

BitBake execution

Parsing metadata

Preparing tasklist

Executing tasks

BitBake options

Building a specific recipe (-b)

ContinuContinuing build even in the case of errors (-k, --continue)

Force-specific tasks (-f, --force)

Using alternate providers (-a, --tryaltconfigs)

Executing a specific task (-c)

Invalidate stamps (-C, --clear-stamp)

Increasing verbosity (-v, --verbose)

Debug level (-D, --debug)

Dry run (-n, --dry-run)

Parse only (-p, --parse-only)

Show versions (-s, --show-versions)

Get environment (-e, --environment)

Generating a dependency graph (-g, --graphviz)

Log levels (-l DEBUG_DOMAINS, --log-domains=DEBUG_DOMAINS)

Profile (-P, --profile)

Select UI (-u UI, --ui=UI)

Don't use shared state (--no-setscene)

Summary

3. Creating the helloworld Recipe

Creating helloworld

Contents of the helloworld recipe

Recipe naming and related variables

Building a recipe

Build directories

Tasks

Build

Fetch

Unpack

Patch

Configure

Compile

Install

Package

Devshell

Clean

Cleansstate

Cleanall

Overriding default tasks

Deploying helloworld

Manually installing a package

Making an image dependent on our package

Summary

4. Adding Multimedia to Your Board

Introducing gaku

The recipe for gaku

Package control variables

Build dependencies (DEPENDS)

Runtime dependencies (RDEPENDS)

Runtime recommendations (RRECOMMENDS)

RCONFLICTS

RREPLACE

PROVIDES

RPROVIDES

Source control in a recipe

SRCREV

PV calculation

The SRC_URI specification

The S directory

Inheriting classes

GStreamer recipes' short trip

Types of variable assignments

EXTRA_OECONF

The FILES_ variables

Variable flags

ALLOW_EMPTY

FILESPATH

Conditional overriding mechanisms

Reusing and sharing the same code

Action time

Summary

5. Creating and Exploring Layers

Layer creation using script

Contents of layers

The conf directory

recipes-* director{y,ies}

Classes

COPYING.mit

README

Conditional selection based on layers

Append files

Packagegroups

Summary

6. Your First Console Game

Hardware requirements

Pacman4Console

Let's develop our recipe

Basic elements

Source control

Work directory and version

The S directory

Debugging compile tasks

Installing a task

Adding package contents

Adding a package to the root filesystem

packagegroup

Image bbappend

Action

Summary

7. Turning BeagleBone into a Home Surveillance System

Problem statement

Requirements

Existing solutions / literature survey

Requiring specialized capturing hardware

Requiring specialized software application

Based on Debian/Angstrom

Selected solution

Host/server side (BeagleBone)

Client side

Let's start the fun

Base plugins

Good plugins

Bad plugins

Ugly plugins

Enabling GStreamer and plugins

Enabling Video4Linux2

In-place amendment

Using append

Using local.conf

The GStreamer pipeline

Client side

VLC

GStreamer

Get ready for running and surprises

Camera-detection issues

UVC driver DMA issue

Build with the meta-ti layer

Fetch the layer

Set the layer priority

Enable the layer

Further enhancements

Summary

8. BeagleBone as a Wi-Fi Access Point

Problem statement / use case

Requirements

Literature survey

Our strategy

Enabling kernel support

Networking support – wireless

Device Drivers > Network device support > Wireless LAN > Atheros Wireless Cards

A better approach toward Kernel configurations

Copying firmware

Using the previous kernel version

Issue with rfkill

Required packages

Changing upstart scripts

Recipe Hotspot-yb

The access point launcher script

Systemd service unit file

Configuration file for the driver module

Configuration file for hostapd

The gateway setup file

The udhcp configuration file

The udhcp e...

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