4. About

This section contains direct excerpts and quotes from publicly accessible presentations: [Str15,OMM15]. — © 2015 The Linux Foundation.

The Yocto Project® is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products, regardless of the hardware architecture. For additional information about the project, please visit: About the Yocto Project.

What is the Yocto Project?

• Open source project with a strong community

• A collection of embedded projects and tooling

  • Place for Industry to publish BSPs

  • Application Development Tools including Eclipse plug-ins and emulators

• Key project is the reference distribution build environment (Poky)

  • Complete Build System for Linux OS

  • Releases every 6 months with latest (but stable) kernel (LTSI), toolchain, and package versions

  • Full documentation representative of a consistent system

Yocto Project

1. It’s not an embedded Linux distribution – it creates a custom one for you.

2. It is an Ecosystem.

The Yocto Project combines the convenience of a ready-to-run Linux Distribution with the flexibility of a custom Linux operating system stack. [Str15,OMM15] — © 2015 The Linux Foundation and Yocto Project.