[FE training-materials-updates] Yocto: agenda
Alexandre Belloni
alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 31 09:27:31 CET 2013
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commit ec940e0c8fcf16da996a22a6e9902a33fb6a008f
Author: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
Date: Tue Dec 31 09:20:07 2013 +0100
Yocto: agenda
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com>
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+\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,obeyspaces,spaces,hyphens]{article}
+
+\usepackage{agenda}
+\usepackage{colortbl}
+\usepackage{xcolor}
+\usepackage{palatino}
+\usepackage{calc}
+
+\hypersetup{pdftitle={OpenEmbedded and Yocto development training},
+ pdfauthor={Free Electrons}}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\thispagestyle{fancy}
+
+\setlength{\arrayrulewidth}{0.8pt}
+
+\begin{center}
+\LARGE
+OpenEmbedded and Yocto training\\
+\large
+3 days session
+\end{center}
+\vspace{1cm}
+
+\small
+\newcolumntype{g}{>{\columncolor{fedarkblue}}m{4cm}}
+\newcolumntype{h}{>{\columncolor{felightblue}}X}
+
+\arrayrulecolor{lightgray} {
+ \setlist[1]{itemsep=-5pt}
+ \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|g|h|}
+ {\bf Title} & OpenEmbedded and Yocto training \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Overview} &
+ Understanding Yocto \par
+ Building and running a Yocto image on your target \par
+ Writing and extending recipes \par
+ Creating layers \par
+ Integrating your board in a BSP \par
+ Creating custom images \par
+ Application development with an Eclipse SDK \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Duration} & {\bf Three} days - 24 hours (8 hours per day).
+ \newline 40\% of lectures, 60\% of practical labs. \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Trainer} & One of the engineers listed on
+ \newline \url{http://free-electrons.com/training/trainers/}\\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Language} & Oral lectures: English, French.
+ \newline Materials: English.\\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Audience} & Companies interested in using Yocto to build their
+ embedded Linux system.\\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Prerequisites} & {\bf Knowledge of embedded Linux} as covered
+ in our embedded Linux training
+ (\url{http://free-electrons.com/training/embedded-linux/}) \newline
+ {\bf Knowledge and practice of Unix or GNU/Linux commands}
+ \newline People lacking experience on this topic should get
+ trained by themselves with our freely available on-line slides
+ (\url{http://free-electrons.com/docs/command-line/}) \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Required equipment} &
+ {\bf For on-site sessions only.}
+ \newline Everything is supplied by Free Electrons in public
+ sessions.
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Video projector
+ \item PC computers with at least 4 GB of RAM, and Ubuntu Linux
+ installed in a {\bf free partition of at least 20 GB. Using Linux
+ in a virtual machine is not supported}, because of issues
+ connecting to real hardware.
+ \item We need Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 (32 or 64 bit, Xubuntu and
+ Kubuntu variants are fine). We don't support other
+ distributions, because we can't test all possible package versions.
+ \item {\bf Connection to the Internet} (direct or through the
+ company proxy).
+ \item {\bf PC computers with valuable data must be backed up}
+ before being used in our sessions. Some people have already made
+ mistakes during our sessions and damaged work data.
+ \end{itemize} \\
+ \hline
+
+ {\bf Materials} & Print and electronic copies of presentations and
+ labs.
+ \newline Electronic copy of lab files.\\
+ \hline
+
+\end{tabularx}}
+\normalsize
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Hardware}
+{
+ The hardware platform used for the practical labs of this training
+ session is a {\bf BeagleBone Black}, which features:
+
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item An ARM AM335x processor from Texas Instruments (Cortex-A8
+ based), 3D acceleration, etc.
+ \item 512 MB of RAM
+ \item 2 GB of on-board eMMC storage
+ \item USB host and device
+ \item HDMI output
+ \item 2 x 46 pins headers, to access UARTs, SPI busses, I2C busses
+ and more.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{}
+{
+ \begin{center}
+ \includegraphics[height=5cm]{agenda/beagleboneblack.png}
+ \end{center}
+}
+
+\section{Day 1 - Morning}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lecture - Introduction to embedded Linux build systems}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Overview of an embedded Linux system architecture
+ \item Methods to build an image
+ \item Usefulness of build system
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+\\
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Overview of Yocto and the Poky reference system}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Organization of the Yocto source tree
+ \item Building an image using Yocto
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - First Yocto build}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Downloading the Poky reference build system
+ \item Building a system image
+ browsers.
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\section{Day 1 - Afternoon}
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Overview of Yocto and the Poky reference system - basics}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Organization of the build output
+ \item Flashing and installing the image
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Flashing and booting}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Flashing and booting the image on the BeagleBone
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Overview of Yocto and the Poky reference system - advanced
+usage}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Configuring the build system
+ \item Customizing the package selection
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Using NFS and configuring the build}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Configuring the BeagleBone to boot over NFS
+ \item Learn how to use the \code{PREFERRED_PROVIDER} mechanism
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+\\
+\section{Day 2 - Morning}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Writing recipes - basics}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Writing a minimal recipe
+ \item Adding dependencies
+ \item Development workflow with bitbake
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Adding an application to the build}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Writing a recipe for nInvaders
+ \item Adding nInvaders to the final image
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lecture - Writing recipes - advanced features}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Extending and overriding recipes
+ \item Adding steps to the build process
+ \item Learn about classes
+ \item Analysis of examples
+ \item Logging
+ \item Debugging dependencies
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\section{Day 2 - Afternoon}
+
+\feagendaonecolumn
+{Lab - Learning how to configure packages}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Extending a recipe to add configuration files
+ \item Using \code{ROOTFS_POSTPROCESS_COMMAND} to modify the final rootfs
+ \item Studying the dependencies of packages
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Layers}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item What are layers
+ \item Where to find layers
+ \item Creating a layer
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Writing a layer}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Learn how to write a layer
+ \item Add the layer to the build
+ \item Move nIvaders to the new layer
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\section{Day 3 - Morning}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Writing a BSP}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Extending an existing BSP
+ \item Adding a new machine
+ \item bootloaders
+ \item Linux and the linux-yocto recipe
+ \item Adding a custom image type
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Kernel}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Extend the kernel recipe to add the nunchuk driver
+ \item Configure the kernel to include the nunchuk driver
+ \item Play nInvaders
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\section{Day 3 - Afternoon}
+
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Creating a custom image}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Writing an image recipe
+ \item Adding users/groups
+ \item Adding custom configuration
+ \item Writing and using package groups recipes
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - Creating a custom image}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Writing a custom image recipe
+ \item Adding nInvader to the custom image
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+\feagendatwocolumn
+{Lecture - Creating and using an SDK}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Building an SDK for the custom image
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+{Lab - SDK}
+{
+ \begin{itemize}
+ \item Building an SDK
+ \item Using Eclipse to use the SDK
+ \end{itemize}
+}
+
+\end{document}
+
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