bitbake cleanall Removes all output files, shared state cache, and downloaded source files for a target It is not clear or documented if it cleans all build time dependencies as well

i have a few questions about the "read-only-rootfs" feature from the yocto project, the documentation is not that helpful unfortunately. So adding that to the EXTRA_IMAGE_FEATURES makes the yocto ...

Building linux for an iMX6 dev board using the Yocto Project, and I want to change the .config used to build u-boot-imx (u-boot for the iMX dev board) - e.g. change the auto boot delay to 1 second ...

Note: The general question is in bold at the end of this post. I'm trying to build PostGIS 2.2.7 with Yocto (Rocko) for my Linux i.MX6 based embedded system. First of all, I have installed Postgre...

How could we add some additional kernel files to sysroot directory? I want to extend do_populate_sysroot task, how can we to copy few more files into sysroot after do_populate_sysroot and before do...

How do I use PREMIRRORS in Bitbake local configurations or recipes? I want to provide my own download locations for some slow or inaccessible third-party URLs, but the official PREMIRRORS documen...

I like to configure syslog. It seems that are more than one way to set up syslog. I am asking for the common way/steps to do that. I have several use cases. To simplify I like to ask how to config...

I have created a bitbake recipe that would copy 2 of my files (firmware binaries for VPU) into `/lib/firmware/` directory on targets root filesystem. I have tried many options so I'm now not sure ...

I am trying to build some native packages as 32bit in yocto (2.6.1 actually, on a 64bit linux). My target does not use multilib at all. Let's say I am building recipe a which needs (all build-time,...

I am developing a device using VAR-SOM-MX7 developing in Yocto Sumo. I managed to add virtual keyboard into my QApplication but when the keyboard appeared, it overlaps the application. The textEdit...

I provide a Yocto SDK to cross-build an application for an embedded target. The application itself is built using CMake. The SDK setup script provides many necessary environment variables (like loc...

After checked the official document, I still don’t understand this meaning in recipe. BBCLASSEXTEND="native nativesdk"

I am experimenting with Yocto project for generating custom Linux images for my embedded devices. I have a requirement to add a persistent custom kernel parameter to /etc/sysctl.conf of the genera...

It seems both (IMAGE_INSTALL and CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL) can add packages into yocto image. What's their difference? I checked this issue: Yocto: Difference between CORE_IMAGE_EXTRA_INSTALL an...

I'm new to Yocto and Bitbake. I'm running my yocto machine through a qemu emulator on Ubuntu and attempting to use the meta-selftest layer to get a sense of how to install new layers. I have downlo...

We want to build a embedded Linux device using Yocto which is SELinux Enabled. I was looking at meta-selinux layer Dependencies. Dependencies This layer depends on the openembedded-core meta...

I am trying to create a simple Yocto Python Recipe for Python 3 PyTorch. The target is an SD Card Image for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano produced by Yocto from the meta-tegra layer. I can successfully co...

I am sorry for naive question. I could not understand the difference between these Yocto variables. The Manual says TOOLCHAIN_HOST_TASK: Lists packages that make up the host part of the SDK (i...

I want to add the gedit package to the the image. But I am not able to find the dependencies of the gedit package. How to find the dependencies (DEPENDS) in yocto?

I'm attempting to create a recipe for SciKit-Learn from pypi. But it seems that python3 setup.py build is unable to find NumPy, even though i know i have it on the build host (both with pip3 instal...

I currently have a bitbake .bb script that looks like this DESCRIPTION = "Hello World" SECTION = "TESTING" LICENSE = "MIT" LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8...

I am trying to figure out a workflow for yocto based project. Currently I have created a git with submodule for each meta layer that I pull. https://github.com/shrkamat/rpi/tree/thud This would me...

I want to verify that my sstate mirror is used properly. I added it to the SSTATE_MIRRORS variable. How can I check how much is re-used from that sstate-mirror

In Yocto-based Embedded Linux distributions, I am really interested in finding the complete list of packages/recipes/kernel modules from each dependent layers that will be built and installed to an...

I have a directory of 'binary' (i.e. not to be compiled) files and just want them to be installed onto my target root file system. I have looked at several articles, none of which seem to work for...