Documentation

NOTE: This page is in the process of being updated. Some content is up-to-date, the rest may be significantly outdated. See OpenEmbedded Wiki Update Project for more details.

Documentation that relates to OpenEmbedded.

Yocto Project Manuals

The most up-to-date manuals relating to OpenEmbedded (in particular, the new OpenEmbedded-Core) is the Yocto Project documentation, in particular the Quick Start Guide, Development Manual and Reference Manual.

See the Documentation section on the Yocto Project website for links to all the manuals.

Solutions for common problems

• Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER for jpeg and jpeg-native

OpenEmbedded Manual

The OpenEmbedded Manual (pdf) (html single-page) is also available but is quite out of date. Much of its content may still be applicable however.

Bitbake Manual

The Bitbake Manual is in need of update but its content should still be applicable.

Other

Many of these are out-of-date:

Articles about Openembedded:

• articles at BEC Systems
  • How to Capture OE Source Code Changes to a Package

Guides and HowTos:

• How to create a bitbake recipe for dummies
• How to submit a patch for dummies
• List of Executable tasks Usage: bitbake -c <task>
• OpenEmbedded Guide by Example
• OpenEmbedded HowTo
• Using OpenEmbedded to build embedded Linux distributions
• Open Embedded - Kernel module development