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Bruce Ashfield
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Although the setting of KBRANCH is the suggested/primary way to interact with the yocto kern-tools and the fetcher, some users may be more comfortable modifying the SRC_URI branch parameter directly. If they do, the tools will not force their branch and build output will be different then they expect, in non obvious ways. It's easy enough to detect this scenario, but checking the SRC_URI in the same way that the git fetcher checks for the branch (and SRCREV). If we take the value from the SRC_URI and use it directly in the patch/validate/update routines, we'll stay consistent with KBRANCH if it is used, and also automatically adapt to a manually changed branch parameter on the SRC_URI. For all other users, there are no visible or behavioural changes as a result of this change (From OE-Core rev: cfce8643ed166b51d7178be173677ea6f527d453) Signed-off-by: Bruce Ashfield <bruce.ashfield@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Poky
====
Poky is an integration of various components to form a complete prepackaged
build system and development environment. It features support for building
customised embedded device style images. There are reference demo images
featuring a X11/Matchbox/GTK themed UI called Sato. The system supports
cross-architecture application development using QEMU emulation and a
standalone toolchain and SDK with 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 layers which extend the systems capabilities in a modular way.
As an integration layer Poky consists of several upstream projects such as
BitBake, OpenEmbedded-Core, Yocto documentation and various sources of information
e.g. for the hardware support. Poky is in turn a component of the Yocto Project.
The Yocto Project has extensive documentation about the system including a
reference manual which can be found at:
http://yoctoproject.org/documentation
OpenEmbedded-Core is a layer containing the core metadata for current versions
of OpenEmbedded. It is distro-less (can build a functional image with
DISTRO = "") and contains only emulated machine support.
For information about OpenEmbedded, see the OpenEmbedded website:
http://www.openembedded.org/
Where to Send Patches
=====================
As Poky is an integration repository, patches against the various components
should be sent to their respective upstreams.
bitbake:
bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
meta-yocto:
poky@yoctoproject.org
Most everything else should be sent to the OpenEmbedded Core mailing list. If
in doubt, check the oe-core git repository for the content you intend to modify.
Before sending, be sure the patches apply cleanly to the current oe-core git
repository.
openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Note: The scripts directory should be treated with extra care as it is a mix
of oe-core and poky-specific files.