Introduction to the Yocto Project and Bitbake
10-29, 12:10–16:00 (Europe/Dublin), Beginner Room

This seminar is for people who are new to using the Yocto Project and want an introduction to the basics of how to use bitbake and start to build images to be used with QEMU.


This talk will be the first of a series of 2 seminars which will cover the topics of:
* Bitbake
* Recipes
* Tasks
* Operators
* Common variables
* What to do when things go wrong
* Building an embedded image

See also: YP Summit Intro Class Slide link (22 bytes)

Behan Webster is a Computer Engineer who has spent more than two decades in diverse tech industries such as telecom, datacom, optical, wireless, automotive, medical, defence, and the game industry writing code for a range of hardware from the very small to the very large. Throughout his career, his work has always involved Linux most often in the areas of kernel level programming, drivers, embedded software, board bring-ups, software architecture, and build systems. He has been involved in a number of Open Source projects including being an early contributor to Debian Linux. Currently, Behan is the lead consultant and founder of Converse in Code Inc, an embedded Linux engineer, Yocto Project Ambassador and former project lead working on the LLVMLinux project as well as being a Trainer for the Linux Foundation. He has previously spoken at various Linux Conferences: Collab/OSLS, ELC, ELCE, OSSNA, Linux.conf.au, SCaLE, FOSDEM, Linaro Connect, LLVMdev, and YPDD. He is under the delusion he can fix most things with a “tiny little script”.

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