Introduction

'Poky' is a combined cross build system and linux distribution based upon OpenEmbedded. It features support for building X11/Matchbox/GTK based filesystem images for various embedded devices and boards.

Required Packages

Running Poky on Debian based distributions requires the following extra packages be installed;

build-essential diffstat texinfo texi2html cvs subversion gawk bochsbios (to run qemux86 images)

You also need to install the qemu from http://debian.o-hand.com/. A poky-depends deb is also available from this source which will install all the dependencies mentioned above for you.

Alternatively poky can build qemu itself, but for this you need the following packages installed;

gcc-3.4 libsdl1.2-dev zlib1g-dev

You will also need to comment out ASSUME_PROVIDED += "qemu-native"' in
build/conf/local.conf.

Building under other distro's such as Fedora is known to work. Use the above package names as a guide for dependencies.

Building An Image

Simply run;

% source poky-init-build-env % bitbake oh-image-pda

This will result in an ext2 image and kernel for qemu arm (see scripts dir).

To build for other machine types see MACHINE in build/conf/local.conf

Notes:

Useful Links;

OpenedHand http://openedhand.com

Poky Homepage http://projects.o-hand.com/poky

OE Homepage and wiki http://openembedded.org