I'm creating quite a simple Yocto image based on x86. I want the / file system to be readonly, so I set the IMAGE_FEATURES_append = " read-only-rootfs " in a custom copy of the original core-im...

I am developing a C++ component that uses gRPC and use the following definitions in my bitbase recipe (Yocto dunfell) to build it with CMake: DEPENDS += "\ grpc \ grpc-native \ ... " ...

Where do I specify BB_STRICT_CHECKSUM = "0" in Yocto to disable checksum check of source code? I get: ERROR: No checksum specified for /PATH/TO/ti-linux-kernel.git, please add at least one to the...

I have been using buildroot till now and recently switched to Yocto. In buildroot, the root file system is present in the "target" folder. What is the location of the root file system in Yocto. I k...

I am building an image with Yocto/Poky release Daisy 1.6.3. What is the correct way or config file where to set the root password? The default password is empty and I can't find a place where to sp...

How do I make a bitbake recipe that clones a git repo with built in authentication (into the url)? What is the format of the SRC_URI?

I am using YOCTO to build an image but the Bitbake process always get stuck at any task including fetch from git Ex: Currently 2 running tasks (1373 of 2477): 0: rpi-mkimage-native-git-r0 do_fetc...

By building the Yocto image I encountered this issue during populating Yocto SDK. Do somebody have any idea where and how to fix it? ERROR: Error executing a python function in exec_python_func() a...

I need to start my own systemd service, let's call it custom.service. I know how to write a recipe for it to be added and enabled on boot: SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "custom.service" SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENA...

I'm new to Yocto Project. The initial idea is to create a custom image based on core-image-full-cmdline (this is with no windowing system) and generate a Qt5 SDK against this image. So my target...

I'm trying to run D-Bus on an embedded system (Yocto Linux) and connect to it from my application code. I get the following error when I call dbus_bus_get(DBUS_BUS_SESSION, &err); Using X11 for...

I'm using Yocto to install clBLAS library (https://github.com/clMathLibraries/clBLAS) using the recipe https://github.com/CogentEmbedded/meta-opencl/blob/master/meta-ocl-common/recipes-graphics/clb...

My program depends on the poco recipes, which provides both the header files and shared libraries. However, I cannot make use of the header files from poco in my recipe, which leads to the error Po...

I am trying to learn yocto by following the video tutorials on their main website. I installed the poky-rocko-18.0.0 and after setting up the build environment I tried to build the linux image usin...

I'm porting a layer to kirkstone which as an outdated patch which cannot be applied anymore (to u-boot). Can devtool be used to fix that patch? The problem is that per default devtool modify applie...

One of my recipes in Yocto need to create a file containing a very specific line, something like: ${libdir}/something To do this, I have the recipe task: do_install() { echo '${libdir}/somethi...

Let’s say I have a recipe foo.bb containing: PACKAGECONFIG[option1] = "..." PACKAGECONFIG[option2] = "..." Now, I want to write a recipe for package bar. In order to run, bar r...

I am using Yocto (Hardknott) to build an image and to create the package-feed(rpm packages). One of the image dependencies is u-boot-karo (it's a custom u-boot for karo modules) and it seems this r...

I am trying to modify the kernel config without luck. There is a BSP in meta-xxx-yyy/ with recipes-kernel/linux/linux_git.bb. I try to override the kernel config in my layer named meta-xxx-mylayer ...

I'm trying to understand the mechanism Yocto provides to enable/disable a particular bbappend for a specific MACHINE. I read this link (Modifying Variables to Support a Different Machine): https://...

I have a .bbappend recipe that I need to create a symbolic link in my system. This is how it looks like now: bernardo@bernardo-ThinkCentre-Edge72:~/yocto/genericx86-64-rocko-18.0.0/meta-datavisio...

I have a Yocto bitbake image recipe that can be built successfully. However, the same image recipe fails when generating SDK with -c populate_sdk command. The error seems to be caused by mixing 3...

I am using the sama5d27-wlsom1-ek board for my demo and I am trying to make changes to the device tree. So far I have compiled core-image-minimal and find my dtb files are generated in /tmp/work/sa...

Is there any other way to clone all the dependent folders in a Bitbake recipe file (similar to using recursive tag)? I'm currently doing it as below: SRC_URI="git://[uri_a];...;name=a \ git://[ur...

The yocto project allows the use of relative path in most of its configuration files but not within the ./build/conf/bblayers.conf file. What is the reason for blocking the use of anything but abso...