LinuxCon Japan 2011 | Presentations

Developing Embedded Linux Devices Using the Yocto Project

Date: Thursday, June 2nd
Time: 2:30pm
Location: Room 501
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The Linux Foundation has announced the Yocto Project to unify the world's efforts around embedded Linux, to make Linux the best choice for embedded designs. The Yocto Project is an open source, collaborative universal starting point for embedded Linux development which contains tools, templates, methods and actual working code to get started with an embedded device project. The project also includes application development tools and emulators to assist in application development, debugging and optimization. The Yocto Project is a joint effort between the open source OpenEmbedded project and the leading embedded silicon and software vendors.

This talk gives a walk-through of the key parts of the Yocto Project for developing embedded Linux projects. The talk will outline how to:

• start from a project download,
• run your first build of Linux, picking a footprint size, architecture and layers
• customize it for a given hardware and software project, and
• use the application development tools, Eclipse plug-in and emulators to debug your embedded device.

At the end of the talk, developers should be able to start their own embedded project using the Yocto Project and use it for developing the next great embedded device.

David Stewart, Intel

David Stewart is a software engineering manager at Intel Corporation. David currently manages a development group in the Open Source Technology Center. Prior to this role, David held a variety of management positions in Intel's Desktop Boards and Systems division and Server Products group. Prior to joining Intel in 1997, David held management and engineering positions in consumer software products and server products. David holds a BS in Computer Science and MS in Computer Science from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which he received in 1983. You can catch Dave's non-work thoughts in his personal blog, http://davestewart.wordpress.com.