MicroYocto

Some community members and Yocto Project maintainers have been working on a Linux-based kernel for memory-constrained embedded systems. It has been referred to in conference presentations as "micro-yocto", although the final name has not yet been decided.

This feature layer, which is built as a variation from the Poky-Tiny distro feature layer, is currently available as a special BSP for the Intel Galileo board, but it will be available soon as its own feature layer that can be used with other appropriate BSPs.

As a community-built feature, microYocto is supported by the Yocto Project community and can be discussed on the mailing lists or IRC channels.

For a brief overview of microYocto and its capabilities, see these slides from Tom Zanussi's presentation at ELC 2014. You can also listen to the audio from this presentation.

Before you run through the instructions for building and booting microYocto, run through the Yocto Project Quick Start Guide. This ensures that you have a functional setup for building microYocto.

Once you've successfully built an image as described in the Quick Start Guide, you can download the following instructions for building microYocto for the Galileo. This document should be all you need to get started:

 $ wget https://github.com/tzanussi/meta/galileo/raw/daisy/meta-galileo/README

For specific questions, contact Jefro directly.