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Booting Our Custom Embedded Linux

It’s time! We are ready to boot our custom-made embedded Linux, as we have learned the required concepts and gained enough knowledge about the Yocto Project and Poky. In this chapter, we will practice what we have learned so far about using Poky with external BSP layers to generate an image for use with the following machines and boot it using the SD card:

  • BeagleBone Black
  • Raspberry Pi 4
  • VisionFive

The concepts in this chapter can be applied to every other board as long as the vendor provides a BSP layer to use with the Yocto Project.

Discovering the right BSP layer

In Chapter 11, Exploring External Layers, we learned that the Yocto Project allows for splitting its metadata among different layers. It organizes ...

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