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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition
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Embedded Linux Development Using Yocto Project Cookbook - Second Edition

by Alex González
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
12h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

An example of a small image that does not include the core image class and can be used as the base for a bottom-up root filesystem image with reduced size, recipes-core/images/image-small.bb, is shown next:

DESCRIPTION = "Minimal console-only image." 
 
IMAGE_INSTALL= "\
        base-files \  
        base-passwd \ 
        busybox \  
        sysvinit \  
        initscripts \  
" 
 
IMAGE_LINGUAS = " " 
 
LICENSE = "MIT" 
 
inherit image 
 
IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = "8192" 

This recipe produces a root filesystem of 4.8 MB. You can go even smaller if you use the poky-tiny distribution by adding the following to your conf/local.conf file:

DISTRO = "poky-tiny" 

The poky-tiny distribution makes a series of size optimizations that may restrict the set of packages you can include in your image. ...

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ISBN: 9781788399210