[OE-core] first of several posts to clarify/document OE issues for beginners

[Chris Larson]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>  the setup:  for better or worse, i and a local colleague are
> submitting a proposal to give a 1/2-day tutorial on OE/yocto at this
> year's ottawa linux symposium:
>
>  http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2012/
>
> and my plan is to start from the absolute basics and walk attendees
> through the really simple operations they can do with OE, building up
> to (ideally) using yocto to configure and build an image for a
> pandaboard ES.  along the way, there will be explanations of how to
> create and customize recipes and layers, how to define a whole new BSP
> and so on.  but the most important part of all of this will be
> stressing the fundamentals -- what one can do beginning with an
> absolutely minimal OE/bitbake setup and slowly checking out additional
> layers.
>
>  to that end, i'm going to start with nothing more than a git clone
> of oe-core and bitbake and demonstrate how much one can do with only
> that.  obviously, with just that, you're restricted to generating only
> basic QEMU images but that's enough to demonstrate a great deal of OE.

Sounds interesting. I'm sure there are plenty of folks that could
benefit from such a thing. Good luck with it.
-- 
Christopher Larson