Build A Custom Linux Distribution with Yocto

Build Ecosystem | Poky & Recipes | BSP and Distro

Yocto Building Embedded Linux - Course Overview

The Yocto Building Embedded Linux course will enable you to build your custom Embedded Linux using Yocto. Starting with basics this course will deep dive into understanding templates, tools and methods provided. By the end of the workshop you will have hands-on exposure with all components of the Yocto project.

The Yocto Build Systems Course provides a comprehensive understanding of the Yocto Project, helping developers create custom Linux distributions for embedded and IoT devices. It equips participants with essential skills to build, customize, and maintain these distributions.

The introduction of the Yocto project by the Open Source ecosystem aims to enable Embedded Systems developers to create a custom distribution quickly by leveraging Yocto. The Yocto build architecture is designed in a modular fashion with customization and efficiency as the key focus areas.

Emphasizing real-world applications, the course helps participants apply their learning to practical projects. Through hands-on labs, learners gain experience in troubleshooting, optimizing build processes, and leveraging Yocto’s tools to streamline development.

Prerequisites and Key Takeaways

Our Yocto workshop starts with building a basic understanding of the build system by giving an overview and comparison between them. Then it introduces the benefits of the Yocto project and takes a step-by-step approach to enable you to create your own custom Embedded Linux distribution. By the end of our Yocto embedded linux training course, you would have created a distribution running on an ARM based target board.

Key Takeaways:

Understand key benefits of Yocto to build your Embedded Linux efficiently
Setup your own build environment and build a distribution
Customize your distribution by writing recipes, patches and binary packages
Build architectural view of Yocto – BSP, Distro and Images
Learn application development workflow with Yocto project SDK

Topics Covered:

Introduction to Embedded Linux build systems
Yocto project and Poky overview
Yocto project basic setup and build
Advanced usage of Yocto
Writing recipes
BSP and distro layers
Images
Application development workflow

Prerequisites:

Basic Linux OS knowledge in any distribution
Basic hands-on Linux Usage

Platform Details:

Any Linux platform (Preferably Ubuntu)
Beagle Bone Black (As Embedded target)

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Yocto - Building Embedded Linux - Course Syllabus

By the end of our Yocto embedded linux training course, you would have created a distribution running on an ARM based target board.

Day-1

Introduction To Build Systems

Introduction to embedded Linux build systems
What is a build system?
List of build systems
Benefits of build system

Yocto Project And Poky Overview

Yocto Project and Poky Overview
Yocto Project Overview
The Yocto Project lexicon
The Poky reference system overview
Poky source tree

Yocto Project Setup And Building

Yocto project basic setup and build
Environment setup
Configuring the build
Building an image

Day-2

Yocto Project Advanced Usage

Advanced configuration
Packages variants
Packages
The power of BitBake

Writing Recipes – Basics

Recipes – Overview
Organization of a recipe
Applying patches
Examples of recipes

Writing Recipes – Advanced

Extending a recipe
Append file example
Advanced recipe configuration

Classes

Classes
Binary packages
BitBake file inclusions

Day-3

Layers

Introduction to layers
Creating layers

BSP Layers

Introduction
Generating a new BSP layer
Hardware configuration files
Formfactor
Bootloader
Kernel

Distro Layers

Overview
Creating a distro layer
Distribute the distribution
Images
Introduction to images
Image types
Package groups

Application Development Workflow

Recommended workflows
The Yocto Project SDK
Devtool
Quilt

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Embedded Systems Courses with Placements for Students & Professionals

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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional - Advanced(Onsite /Classroom-based)	23/12/2024	6 Months*	Register Now
Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional(Online)	20/12/2024	6 Months*	Register Now
Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Online)	03/01/2025	6 Months/Evening*	Register Now
Embedded Systems Internship	30/11/2024	1 Month	Register Now

Embedded Systems Courses with Placements for Students & Professionals

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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional - Advanced(Onsite /Classroom-based)

Start date

23/12/2024

Duration

6 Months*

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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional(Online)

Start date

20/12/2024

Duration

6 Months*

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Emertxe Certified Embedded Professional (Online)

Start date

03/01/2025

Duration

6 Months/Evening*

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Course name

Embedded Systems Internship

Start date

30/11/2024

Duration

1 Month

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Got 5 Job Offers After UpSkilling

Developing solutions on my own and the belief in Best return on investment is in improving self-skills were the key motivating factors that made me reach Emertxe. Mentors helped me advance diversified skills in the Embedded domain. I could enhance my profile and started giving interviews. At one point I had 5 offers in hand to make a choice. Thanks to Emertxe.

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Career Transition into Embedded

I was working in a non Embedded domain, and wanted to get back into the core. Hence I quit my job and joined Emertxe. I got help from mentors who helped me to get back into hands-on programming. Because of Helped to achieve a career transition. Mentors Helped to get the basics of embedded systems and build a career in the core domain.

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Training provided at Emertxe is more about practical knowledge necessary to become ready for industry. Practice sessions and assignments at Emertxe are well-designed to give candidates the edge over other job seekers in the market. I have worked on IoT, Linux drivers, Low level drivers, firmware, RTOS, currently working at Toshiba Software India.

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I was working as a faculty in an engineering college. Wanted to get into Embedded, which has been my area of interest. However I had a skill-gap. Mentors understood my challenge and aspirations. They helped me by giving hands-on mentoring and close guidance. I could make a transition into the industry, which was not possible without Emertxe.

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Yocto Build Embedded Linux Course - FAQs

We are pretty sure you will have a lot of questions before joining our courses. Here are the frequently asked questions for your reference. In case you still have anything specific write to us at training@emertxe.com

Which target platform is used in this course?

In this course Beaglebone Black is used as a target platform. It is one of the most popular low-cost, community-supported development platform for developers and hobbyists.

It has got AM335x 1GHz ARM® Cortex-A8 processor with software compatibility with most of the popular Linux distributions (ex: Ubuntu). However learnings from these courses can be applied in any standard or customized target platform which is capable of running Embedded Linux.

What are the prerequisites to take up this course?

Participants need to have following prerequisites to take up this course.

Familiar with the UNIX or Linux command line interface
Scripting
Python(Added Advantage)
Embedded Linux

I am aware of buildroot. What more is taught on this course?

Knowing buildroot would be an added advantage for this course. However in this course you will be learning some of the unique features of Yocto using which you can create your own Linux distribution faster and easier. One of key element you will learn is about automating the build by writing the recipes.

What kind of expertise mentors have?

Our mentors have experience in building embedded systems products right from scratch to launching the product successfully in the market. This includes board design, OS porting, device driver development, application development, board support packages etc. Along with technology skills they also have domain skills like telecom, enterprise and consumer electronic segments that are successfully used in the market.

How will I benefit from mentor’s experience?

Since our mentors are industry experienced, they bring in practical hands-on approach in training. This not only makes individuals to learn a particular technology but also understand how it is being applied in the industry. With systematic approach our trainers will immensely beneficial for participants.

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