diff --git a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml
index 797d79f5ad..53e6904545 100644
--- a/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml
+++ b/documentation/poky-ref-manual/development.xml
@@ -19,21 +19,22 @@
The Yocto Project provides toolchains that allow you to develop your application
outside of the Yocto Project build system for specific hardware.
- These toolchains (called meta-toolchains) contain cross-development tools like compilers,
- linkers, and debuggers that build your application for your target.
- The Yocto Project also provides images that have toolchains set up for supported
- architectures.
+ These toolchains (called meta-toolchains) contain cross-development tools such as compilers,
+ linkers, and debuggers that build your application for your target device.
+ The Yocto Project also provides images that have toolchains for supported
+ architectures included within the image.
+ This allows you to compile, debug, or profile applications directly on the target device.
See
Reference: Images for a listing of the image
types that Yocto Project supports.
Using the BitBake tool you can build a meta-toolchain or meta-toolchain-sdk target,
- which is in the form of a tarball.
+ which generates a tarball.
Unpacking this tarball into the /opt/poky directory
on your host produces a setup script
(e.g. /opt/poky/environment-setup-i586-poky-linux) that
- you can source to initialize your build environment.
+ you can source to initialize your build environment.
Sourcing this script adds the compiler, QEMU scripts, QEMU binary, a special version of
pkgconfig and other
useful utilities to the PATH variable used by the Yocto Project
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@
that builds your application
specify to use the cross-compiler arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc
and linker arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld, which are part of the
- meta-toolchain you have previously established:
+ meta-toolchain you would have previously established:
CC=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc;
LD=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld;
@@ -69,13 +70,13 @@
The current release of the Yocto Project supports the Eclipse IDE plug-in
to make developing software easier for the application developer.
The plug-in provides capability extensions to the graphical IDE to allow
- for cross compilation, deployment and execution of the output in a QEMU
+ for cross compilation, deployment and execution of the application within a QEMU
emulation session.
Support of the Eclipse plug-in also allows for cross debugging and
profiling.
Additionally, the Eclipse plug-in provides a suite of tools
that allows the developer to perform remote profiling, tracing, collection of
- power data, collection of latency data and collection of performance data.
+ power consumption data, collection of latency data and collection of performance data.
The current release of the Yocto Project no longer supports the Anjuta plug-in.
@@ -106,7 +107,7 @@
The QEMU images shipped with the Yocto Project contain complete toolchains
- native to specific target architectures.
+ native to their target architectures.
This support allows you to develop applications within QEMU similar to the way
you would using a normal host development system.
@@ -135,7 +136,7 @@
- Several mechanisms exist that let you connect into the system running on the
+ Several mechanisms exist that let you connect to the system running on the
QEMU emulator:
QEMU provides a framebuffer interface that makes standard