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 Some content is up-to-date, the rest may be significantly outdated.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 [1] for links to all the manuals.

Solutions for common problems

• Set PREFERRED_PROVIDER for jpeg and jpeg-native

Bitbake Manual

Bitbake Manual

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Many of these are out-of-date: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