10. Board Support Packages

The preceding chapters laid the foundation for building custom a Linux system with the Yocto Project tools. We used the software system emulator QEMU for testing. In this chapter, we take it one step further and demonstrate how the build system supports creating Linux kernel and root filesystem images for actual hardware.

Hardware support is provided by board support packages (BSPs). If you are familiar with embedded system development, you have most likely heard the term BSP before. However, regardless ...

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