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Yocto is fine if you are using a SOM and the vendor provides a yocto BSP. If are building your own board and developing a BSP, Yocto is a nightmare peeling awa
by not_the_fda 4y ago
Yocto is fine if you are using a SOM and the vendor provides a yocto BSP.
If are building your own board and developing a BSP, Yocto is a nightmare peeling away the onion layers.
I find Buildroot much saner and easier to work with.
- midoridensha 4y agoI completely agree; I worked on a project with a custom board and we tried Yocto at first because the silicon vendor pushed it, and it was indeed a complete nightmare. We finally switched to Buildroot and life was much easier.
- palata 4y agoIMO those are quite different. I see buildroot for making a firmware, in the sense that I ship a bunch of tools that will run on a device (and I can flash updates). Yocto is there to build a distro, where you have to manage packages, and potentially other people will be developing for it. Of course if Yocto is overkill in your case, then buildroot will probably be a better fit.