Reading Time: 8 minutesIntroduction Anyone who has spent time developing recipes in the Yocto project knows the routine all too well. Make a change to a recipe, rebuild the image, reflash the board, reboot, test, and repeat. Even with an existing sstate cache, that loop can eat up a surprising amount of your day, especially when the change […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutesIntroduction Building a Yocto project based distribution often means encountering frustrating errors when building recipes. While bitbake logs these failures, deciphering the root cause can be like finding a needle in a haystack. Each recipe and build process is unique, so relying solely on logs can be inefficient and overwhelming. Luckily, the Yocto project provides
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction Over my many years of working with the Yocto project, I have acquired many methods and tricks along the way that help me do things such as debug issues, accelerate development, create more efficient code and gain a better overall understanding of the project to design things right the first time. The Yocto project
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Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction When setting up Linux on a new board, you are bound to encounter issues. These issues can range from preventing the kernel from booting to emitting warnings or causing drivers to fail registration or probing. Regardless of the specific issue, the result is a system that does not function as intended. Debugging is the
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