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Alexander Kanavin 941ac7d256 bitbake: parse/ast: add support for 'built-in' fragments
When reviewing proposed fragments to add settings for DISTRO and MACHINE,
RP noted that such fragments only add clutter and overhead, and there's
no need to maintain them as separate files.

Rather when bitbake sees 'fragmentvar/fragmentvalue' it can expand that into
FRAGMENTVAR = "fragmentvalue".

To achieve that, 'addfragments' directive is extended with a parameter
that sets the name of the variable that holds definitions of such
built-in fragments, for example like this:

"machine:MACHINE distro:DISTRO"

Then each enabled fragment name is matched against these definitions and the
respective variable is set, e.g. 'machine/qemuarm' would match
'machine:MACHINE' and result in MACHINE set to 'qemuarm'.

This happens before any fragment files are looked up on disk,
and no such lookup happens if there was a match, which should prevent
possible misuse of the feature. So the builtin fragment definition
is also an allowlist for them.

Please also see the patches for oe-core that show an application of the feature.

(Bitbake rev: 3b9d7bea915dc7f10e845854f1dae325743f9456)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <alex@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-06-20 12:03:37 +01:00
bitbake bitbake: parse/ast: add support for 'built-in' fragments 2025-06-20 12:03:37 +01:00
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meta oeqa/utils/command: fast-path get_bb_var() 2025-06-20 09:52:28 +01:00
meta-poky templates/default: do not separately enable sdl in qemu-system-native 2025-06-09 17:43:42 +01:00
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scripts scripts/test-remote-image: remove useless postconfig arguments 2025-06-19 21:54:44 +01:00
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Poky

Poky is an integration of various components to form a pre-packaged build system and development environment which is used as a development and validation tool by the Yocto Project. It features support for building customised embedded style device images and custom containers. There are reference demo images ranging from X11/GTK+ to Weston, commandline and more. The system supports cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a standalone toolchain and SDK suitable for IDE integration.

Additional information on the specifics of hardware that Poky supports is available in README.hardware. Further hardware support can easily be added in the form of BSP layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way. Many layers are available and can be found through the layer index.

As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation, the 'meta-yocto' layer which has configuration and hardware support components. These components are all part of the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded ecosystems.

The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a reference manual which can be found at https://docs.yoctoproject.org/

OpenEmbedded is the build architecture used by Poky and the Yocto project. For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website.

Contribution Guidelines

Please refer to our contributor guide here: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/contributor-guide/ for full details on how to submit changes.

Where to Send Patches

As Poky is an integration repository (built using a tool called combo-layer), patches against the various components should be sent to their respective upstreams:

OpenEmbedded-Core (files in meta/, meta-selftest/, meta-skeleton/, scripts/):

BitBake (files in bitbake/):

Documentation (files in documentation/):

meta-yocto (files in meta-poky/, meta-yocto-bsp/):

If in doubt, check the openembedded-core git repository for the content you intend to modify as most files are from there unless clearly one of the above categories. Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current git repository branch in question.

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