TipsAndTricks

Background

This wiki page captures ideas for "Tips and tricks" articles that are aimed Yocto Project users that have a basic understanding of the core tools and want to extend their knowledge. Articles will written and published using the following process

• Articles must refer to the current (or earlier) release. They must not cover features in development in the master branch.
• Anyone can add entries to the Ideas for Articles section based on challenges they have encountered when using the Yocto Project
• More experienced developers can start to flesh out articles in the Ideas section move then to Articles in Development or contribute directly to this section.
• Approximately once a month an article ready for publishing will be chosen for publication by Jefro. The article will be enhanced with the help of a subject matter expert and technical writer and moved to the Published Articles section and then published on the Yocto Project wiki and sent to mailing list.

Please contact Henry Bruce with any questions.

Ideas for Articles

• TipsAndTricks/GeneratingASDK (Ross, Paul help please...)
• TipsAndTricks/EnablingAPackageFeed (Ross)
• TipsAndTricks/AddingALicense (Ross)
• TipsAndTricks/DevPyShell (Richard Purdie)
• TipsAndTricks/How To Create a BSP. And what not to put in it.
• TipsAndTricks/Patchwork
• TipsAndTricks/Patchtest (Leo)

Articles in development

• TipsAndTricks/DebugNativeRecipeWithGdb (Joshua Lock)
• TipsAndTricks/Netconsole (Ross Burton)
• TipsAndTricks/ParsingProfiling (Richard Purdie)
• TipsAndTricks/NPM (Brendan, Henry)
• TipsAndTricks/DemystifyingTheLinuxYoctoKernel (Tom Zanussi)
• TipsAndTricks/Patching the source for a recipe (Paul Eggleton)
• TipsAndTricks/Incorporating closed source components (Paul Eggleton)
• TipsAndTricks/DebuggingAvoidingRebuilds (Richard Purdie)
• TipsAndTricks/GitBisectABitbake (Ross)
• TipsAndTricks/PackagingNonversionedLibrary (Ross)
• TipsAndTricks/RunningEclipseAgainstBuiltImage (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/UsingBuildstatsDiff (Ross)
• TipsAndTricks/PrelinkSomePointersAndWorkarounds (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/RunningQemuOnMacOSX (Stephano)
• TipsAndTricks/Understanding what changed (diffsigs etc) (Joshua)
• TipsAndTricks/DockerOnImage (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/CropsCLIContainers (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/QuickAndDirtyKernelConfig (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/TestingToasterWithContainers (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/InvestigatingBuildTime (Leo Sandoval)

Articles ready for publishing

• Packaging Prebuilt Libraries.