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 and moved to the Finished Articles section.

Please contact Henry Bruce with any questions.

Ideas for Articles

• TipsAndTricks/GeneratingASDK (Ross, Paul help please...)
• TipsAndTricks/AddingALicense (Ross)
• TipsAndTricks/UsingBuildstatsDiff (Ross)
• TipsAndTricks/DevPyShell (Richard Purdie)
• TipsAndTricks/CreatingABSP. And what not to put in it.
• TipsAndTricks/Patchwork
• TipsAndTricks/Patchtest (Leo)
• TipsAndTricks/CreateNewLayer (Brendan)
• TipsAndTricks/DockerOnImage (bavery)

Articles in development

• TipsAndTricks/KernelDevelopmentWithEsdk (Todor Minchev)
• TipsAndTricks/DebugNativeRecipeWithGdb (Joshua Lock)
• TipsAndTricks/Netconsole (Ross Burton)
• TipsAndTricks/ParsingProfiling (Richard Purdie)
• 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/RunningEclipseAgainstBuiltImage (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/PrelinkSomePointersAndWorkarounds (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/RunningQemuOnMacOSX (Stephano)
• TipsAndTricks/Understanding what changed (diffsigs etc) (Joshua)
• TipsAndTricks/CropsCLIContainers (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/QuickAndDirtyKernelConfig (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/TestingToasterWithContainers (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/InvestigatingBuildTime (Leo Sandoval)
• TipsAndTricks/ResolvingLocaleIssues (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/DebuggingBitbakeInPudb (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/DebuggingBitbakeInWingIDE (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/CliBuildsInToasterBuilddir (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/BuildingZephyrImages (Henry)
• TipsAndTricks/Cmake,Eclipse, and SDKS (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/LinuxKernelAndSDKs (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/Running YP binaries on Ubuntu and Vice Versa (bavery)
• TipsAndTricks/LockSharedState (Stephano)
• TipsAndTricks/Building and booting for Joule or MinnowBoard (Cal)
• TipsAndTricks/EnablingAPackageFeed (Henry)
• TipsAndTricks/Creating Recipes for ROS modules (Henry)

Finished Articles

• Packaging Prebuilt Libraries (Ross and Henry)
• Packaging Node.js Projects (Brendan and Henry)