7.5. BitBake Tool Area

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Figure 7.6 BitBake Tool as part of Yocto WBuild System orkflow

The OpenEmbedded build system uses BitBake to produce images and Software Development Kit. You can see from the general workflow figure, the BitBake area consists of several functional areas:

  1. Source Fetching

  2. Patching

  3. Configuration, Compilation, and Staging

  4. Package Splitting

  5. Image Generation

  6. SDK Generation

See BitBake Tool for more details.