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Chris Larson
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This implementation consists of two components:
- Type creation python modules, whose job it is to construct objects of the
defined type for a given variable in the metadata
- typecheck.bbclass, which iterates over all configuration variables with a
type defined and uses oe.types to check the validity of the values
This gives us a few benefits:
- Automatic sanity checking of all configuration variables with a defined type
- Avoid duplicating the "how do I make use of the value of this variable"
logic between its users. For variables like PATH, this is simply a split(),
for boolean variables, the duplication can result in confusing, or even
mismatched semantics (is this 0/1, empty/nonempty, what?)
- Make it easier to create a configuration UI, as the type information could
be used to provide a better interface than a text edit box (e.g checkbox for
'boolean', dropdown for 'choice')
This functionality is entirely opt-in right now. To enable the configuration
variable type checking, simply INHERIT += "typecheck". Example of a failing
type check:
BAZ = "foo"
BAZ[type] = "boolean"
$ bitbake -p
FATAL: BAZ: Invalid boolean value 'foo'
$
Examples of leveraging oe.types in a python snippet:
PACKAGES[type] = "list"
python () {
import oe.data
for pkg in oe.data.typed_value("PACKAGES", d):
bb.note("package: %s" % pkg)
}
LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT = "yes"
LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT[type] = "boolean"
python () {
import oe.data
assert(oe.data.typed_value("LIBTOOL_HAS_SYSROOT", d) == True)
}
(From OE-Core rev: a04ce490e933fc7534db33f635b025c25329c564)
Signed-off-by: Chris Larson <chris_larson@mentor.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/community/documentation
For information about OpenEmbedded see their website:
http://www.openembedded.org/