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<chapter id='intro'>
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<section id='intro-welcome'>
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<title>Welcome to Poky!</title>
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<para>
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Poky is the build tool in the Yocto Project.
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The Yocto Project uses Poky to build images (kernel, system, and application software) for
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targeted hardware.
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</para>
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<para>
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Before diving into Poky, it helps to have an understanding of the Yocto Project.
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Especially useful for newcomers is the information in the Yocto Project Quick Start, which
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you can find on the <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org">Yocto Project website</ulink>.
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Specifically, the guide is
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at <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/yocto-quick-start/yocto-project-qs.html"/>.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id='what-is-poky'>
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<title>What is Poky?</title>
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<para>
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Within the Yocto Project, Poky provides an open source, full-platform build tool based on
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Linux, X11, Matchbox, GTK+, Pimlico, Clutter,
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and other <ulink url='http://gnome.org/mobile'>GNOME Mobile</ulink> technologies.
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It provides a focused and stable subset of OpenEmbedded upon which you can easily and
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reliably build and develop.
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Poky fully supports a wide range of x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC hardware and device virtualization.
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</para>
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<para>
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Poky is primarily a platform builder that generates filesystem images
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based on open source software such as the Kdrive X server, the Matchbox
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window manager, the GTK+ toolkit and the D-Bus message bus system. While images
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for many kinds of devices can be generated, the standard example
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machines target QEMU full-system emulation (x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC) and
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real reference boards for each of these architectures.
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Poky's ability to boot inside a QEMU
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emulator makes it particularly suitable as a test platform for developing embedded software.
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</para>
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<para>
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An important component integrated within Poky is Sato, a GNOME Mobile-based
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user interface environment.
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It is designed to work well with screens that use very high DPI and have restricted
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sizes, such as those often found on smartphones and PDAs.
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Because Sato is coded for speed and efficiency, it works smoothly on hand-held and
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other embedded hardware.
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It sits nicely on top of any device that uses the GNOME Mobile stack and it results in
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a well-defined user experience.
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</para>
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<screenshot>
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<mediaobject>
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<imageobject>
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<imagedata fileref="screenshots/ss-sato.png" format="PNG" align='center' scalefit='1' width="100%" contentdepth="100%"/>
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</imageobject>
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<caption>
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<para>The Sato Desktop - A screenshot from a machine running a Poky built image</para>
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</caption>
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</mediaobject>
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</screenshot>
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<para>
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Poky has a growing open source community and is also backed up by commercial organizations
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including Intel® Corporation.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id='intro-manualoverview'>
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<title>Documentation Overview</title>
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<para>
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The sections in this reference manual describe different aspects of Poky.
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The <link linkend='usingpoky'>'Using Poky'</link> section provides an overview of the components
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that make up Poky followed by information about using Poky and debugging images created in
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the Yocto Project.
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The <link linkend='extendpoky'>'Extending Poky'</link> and
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<link linkend='bsp'>'Board Support Packages'</link> sections provide information
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about how to extend and customize Poky along with advice on how to manage these changes.
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The <link linkend='platdev'>'Platform Development with Poky'</link> section provides information about
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interaction between Poky and target hardware for common platform development tasks such as software
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development, debugging and profiling.
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The rest of the manual consists of several reference sections, each providing details on a specific
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area of Poky functionality.
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</para>
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<para>
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This manual applies to Poky Release 5.0 (Bernard).
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id='intro-requirements'>
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<title>System Requirements</title>
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<para>
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Although we recommend Debian-based distributions
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(Ubuntu 10.04 or newer) as the host system for Poky, nothing in Poky is
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distribution-specific. Consequently, other distributions should work as long
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as the appropriate prerequisites are installed. For example, we know of Poky being used
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successfully on Redhat, SUSE, Gentoo and Slackware host systems.
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For information on what you need to develop images using Yocto Project and Poky,
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you should see the Yocto Project Quick Start on the <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org">
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Yocto Project website</ulink>.
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The direct link to the quick start is
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<ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/docs/yocto-quick-start/yocto-project-qs.html'/>.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id='intro-getit'>
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<title>Obtaining Poky</title>
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<section id='intro-getit-releases'>
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<title>Releases</title>
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<para>Periodically, we make releases of Poky available
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at <ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/downloads/poky/'/>.
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These releases are more stable and more rigorously tested than the nightly development images.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id='intro-getit-nightly'>
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<title>Nightly Builds</title>
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<para>
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We make nightly builds of Poky for testing purposes and to make the
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latest developments available. The output from these builds is available
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at <ulink url='http://autobuilder.yoctoproject.org/'/>.
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The numbers used in the builds increase for each subsequent build and can be used to
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reference a specific build.
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</para>
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<para>
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Automated builds are available for "standard" Poky and for Poky SDKs and toolchains.
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Additionally, testing versions such as poky-bleeding can be made available as
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'experimental' builds.
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The toolchains can
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be used either as external standalone toolchains or can be combined with Poky as a
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pre-built toolchain to reduce build time. Using the external toolchains is simply a
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case of untarring the tarball into the root of your system (it only creates files in
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<filename>/opt/poky</filename>) and then enabling the option
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in <filename>local.conf</filename>.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id='intro-getit-dev'>
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<title>Development Checkouts</title>
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<para>
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Poky is available from our git repository located at
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git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky.git; a web interface to the repository
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can be accessed at <ulink url='http://git.yoctoproject.org/'/>.
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</para>
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<para>
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The 'master' is where the development work takes place and you should use this if you're
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interested in working with the latest cutting-edge developments. It is possible for the trunk
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to suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed.
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If these periods of instability are undesirable, we recommend using one of the release branches.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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</chapter>
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