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Yocto is not a bad idea in a vacuum. But Yocto doesn't have a good hardware platform for low cost IoT, so it is limited to a narrow category where Intel's mains
by Zigurd 9y ago
Yocto is not a bad idea in a vacuum. But Yocto doesn't have a good hardware platform for low cost IoT, so it is limited to a narrow category where Intel's mainstream CPUs can play. And to the slice of that market that won't go to Microsoft's IoT variant of Windows, nor to Android Things. I doubt there will be, for example, a Yocto-based car infotainment system.
- versale 9y agoAs an example BMW is working on one http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/elce-2016-mario-goulart-mikko-rapeli.pdf http://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/...
- sriram_sun 9y agoAutomotive Grade Linux is a Yocto based distro for exactly that. I even saw job postings on LinkedIn for "AGL experience!" After I dug in a little bit, I found that it was just built on top of Yocto/OE. http://docs.automotivelinux.org/docs/getting_started/en/dev/reference/source-code.html http://docs.automotivelinux.org/docs/getting_started/en/dev/...