Now instead of displaying a scrolling log, bitbake will display a simple output that lists which tasks it is working on at the moment: Currently… Read More »Bitbake has a new way of displaying build status
Recently, I attended an Embedded Linux summit hosted by the Linux Foundation to discuss the Yocto project. Overall, I thought the meeting was very positive… Read More »Yocto and OpenEmbedded
Recently an OpenEmbedded class name srctree became usable. The srctree.bbclass enables operation inside of an existing source tree for a project, rather than using the… Read More »OpenEmbedded srctree and gitver
This article and screen-cast is a continuation of that last couple posts describing the BEC OE build template. The purpose again for a build system… Read More »Installing OMAP3 images on a SD card
In this article screencast, we’ll demonstrate how to create a custom Linux OS image using the OpenEmbedded build system. This demonstration builds on the earlier… Read More »Creating a Custom OpenEmbedded Image
Setting up an OpenEmbedded build is a fairly simple process if you carefully follow the instructions. There are also a number of scripts available that… Read More »OpenEmbedded Build Template
Ever since I have been sending out weekly change logs, I have been impressed by the consistent amount of development activity in the OpenEmbedded project. … Read More »OpenEmbedded development activity
I do quite a few OpenEmbedded project builds during the course of a week. This process usually takes 3-5 minutes. That is just enough time… Read More »Notification at the end of builds
A common question is how do you do kernel development with OpenEmbedded? Typically, OpenEmbedded builds a kernel by checking the source out of a git… Read More »Best practices for kernel development with OpenEmbedded
I recently wrote an article about best practices building Qt applications with OpenEmbedded, and it occured to me that I should write an equivalent article… Read More »Best practices for building Gtk+ applications with OpenEmbedded
This article describes how to cross compile a Qt application (named qt_tutorial) with OpenEmbedded, and several best practices you should consider. OpenEmbedded currently includes fairly… Read More »Best practices for building Qt applications with OpenEmbedded
One task that is a often confusing to new OpenEmbedded users is how to capture changes to the source code for a package/recipe. First, lets… Read More »How to capture source changes to an OpenEmbedded package
Occasionally I am asked how Embedded Linux compares with Windows CE. I have spent the past 5 years doing mostly embedded Linux development, and the… Read More »Embedded Linux versus Windows CE
Very interesting news from MontaVista yesterday as they announced MontaVista Linux 6. It turns out they are using bitbake, which is the core of the… Read More »MontaVista Linux 6 is based on OpenEmbedded Technologies
Although ssh and friends work really well for embedded systems, occasionally you want to set up a NFS root for development. One of the scenarios… Read More »How to set up a NFS root filesystem for embedded Linux development