I am building image for NXP board using yocto. I could see different distros say "x11, wayland, fb, directfb" etc. In the conf files for these distros I could see "DISTRO_FEATURES_remove" of other...

What if I am obbliged to use Yocto, but I don't need a custom o.s. Instead I prefer a common ubuntu 16.04. Is there a way to create it using the yocto enviroment?

I have a working Yocto build system based on the rocko branch that is generating images for an ARM-based target board. One of the chips on this board is a small ARM-based micro-controller that is s...

Reading a book on Yocto. Got to the following page, which says: BitBake provides a very easy-to-use way to write conditional metadata. It is done by a mechanism called overrides. The OVERRID...

I have a trouble of understanding the FILES_${PN} even after I have read the manual. For example, I was working on this example of making startup script. After I wrote something similar to, I got t...

I am trying to understand Yocto recipes. Following is one of the line from a Yocto Recipe: DEPENDS_append_class-target = " grub-efi-native" What I understood is this recipe depends on pa...

I've got a couple of HW platforms (same cpu, etc.) that require different asound.conf files. The way that I'm controlling the target platform is via the MACHINE variable and target image (i.e., MA...

When I open bitbake files (ending with .bb extension), most of the files are using the WORKDIR variable as shown below. S = "${WORKDIR}/git" can you please tell me where this WORKDIR is defined...

I'm trying to create a recipe for a custom library in Yocto. I'm currently getting this error: ERROR: ... do_package: QA Issue: pot-plugin: Files/directories were installed but not shipped in any p...

I'm trying to cross-compile a programme for a Yocto qemu using Yocto's sdk tools. After setting up the sdk and sourcing it, trying to cross-compile the programme fails thusly: *** Unable to find t...

Is there any recipe for adding a new, empty directory to the rootfs? I tried adding this into one of my bbappend file: do_install() { install -d ${D}/tmp/myNewDir } FILES_${PN} += "/tmp/myNewDir"...

I am having a folder in which there are too many c files (Approx 200 c files) Right now in the bitbake file of that folder I am adding files in SRC_URI variable like this: SRC_URI = "file://file...

I just started understanding Yocto. I didn't find much information about classes (.bbclass) files . I know a .bb file is a recipe, which contains the instruction to build a package. When do we have...

I am working on the Dora branch (Poky 1.2) of Yocto and need to work on this branch only. I need to change the blank root password to some other value in order to prevent a security hole in the i...

I would like to install/copy all my directories and files recursively from working directory to my target package rootfs on yocto build system. I tried the solution provided by Tobias Bystricky in ...

TL;DR: Is there a way to force to recompile a package every time an image is generated? I have a bbappend with a do_deploy_append appending to a file and if I modify this step, the recipe will not...

In Bitbake I can build e.g. the Linux Kernel with bitbake virtual/kernel or U-Boot with bitbake virtual/bootloader. Where do those "virtual/..." terms come from? I used find for patters such as "...

I am trying to add the open source "procps" package to my working Yocto build. This package installs a bunch of binaries that replace those provided by BusyBox. I only want one of these binaries - ...

Setup: I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and I am trying to build an image that includes some recipes from meta-selinux. I have tried to follow the READMEs and other help, but I am pretty stuck. Here are ...

I built qt5-toolchain for ARM arthitecture successfully.But I receive following error while compiling any qt application: Makefile:545: recipe for target 'moc_mainwindow.o' failed Wl,-O1 -o Dem...

Recently, I tried to include open source package (iperf3) to target image via Yocto build. (Updating local.conf for IMAGE_INSTALL += "iperf3", as the project already corresponding recipe)...

I want to add some layers fetch from upstream for a new machine (call it A) mainly just to use the machine A configure file, kernel and u-boot provided from those layers. However, the new layers ha...

I have built an image with systemd and dhcp-client. In the recipe dhcp in meta-openembedded/meta-systemd/oe-core/recipes-connectivity/dhcp there is a bbappend which creates a dhclient.service. I wa...

I have a yocto recipe to compile a code from github. I modified some files and want to apply a patch to code fetched from github. Following is my recipe for building code. SUMMARY = "Linux NFC...

On Yocto Project FAQ: The Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded share a core collection of metadata called openembedded-core. However, the two organizations remain separate, each with its own focus. ...