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Darn, I got excited for a bit because I hated how I had to do a bunch of ARM nonsense to bring up my Pi gadget. What's Yocto and what are they doing wrong?
by hatsunearu 10y ago
Darn, I got excited for a bit because I hated how I had to do a bunch of ARM nonsense to bring up my Pi gadget.
What's Yocto and what are they doing wrong?
- mojoB 10y agoI'd suggest Yocto is the de facto standard for this kind of embedded device. It's a bit complex behind the scenes but general building and updating packages is fairly straightforward. Bringing up the edison is very easy. The bootloader supports DFU, so you can simply connect USB, reset, and flash the system images. If you're coming at it from a higher level, it has a node.js and ssh services running by default, so it's easy to start tinkering.
- skywal_l 10y agoBuildroot is good too and seem fairly simple. I used it for RPi project and comes with support for many boards.
- seren 10y agoYocto is a bit like gentoo for exotic architectures. It allows you to create your distribution by cross compiling everything from source, and applying multi layered patches. It is a buildroot with steroids.
- egorf 10y agoThere's nothing with wrong with yocto itself, it's a build system which allows to create a custom Linux distribution. It's the way Intel dealt with whole thing, that makes me cringe. It's poorly organized and unaccustomed to any serious changes.