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Yocto for Raspberry Pi
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Yocto for Raspberry Pi

by TEXIER Pierre-Jean, Petter Mabäcker
June 2016
Beginner
214 pages
3h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preferences and providers

Once BitBake has realized the "parsing" step (analyzing all the recipes), it must know how to build the target. It starts by looking through the PROVIDES variable set in the recipe files. The default PROVIDES value for a recipe is its name ( PN ).

Note

PN represents the name of the recipe; PR, the revision of the recipe; and PV, the version of the recipe. For example, when using the recipe rpio-gpio_0.5.9.bb, here is what the values will be:

${PN} = rpi-gpio

${PV} = 0.5.9

Sometimes, a target might have multiple providers. A common example is virtual/kernel, which is provided by each kernel recipe (check out meta-raspberrypi/tree/master/recipes-kernel/linux for further information). Each machine often selects the best ...

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ISBN: 9781785281952