Documentation

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.

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The OpenEmbedded Manual (pdf) (html single-page) is also available but is quite out of date.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Many of these are out-of-date: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