Notes from embedded Linux and Yocto work

Yocto Quick Start

A Quick Guide to Getting Started With The Yocto Project

Hello World, 20 Different Ways: A Collection of Yocto Recipe Examples

A collection of practical Yocto recipe examples demonstrating C, CMake, Meson, Rust, Python, Git source fetching, dependencies and packaging.

Building a Matter Light switch with Yocto: From a String of LEDs to Apple Home

A Lego house, a cheap Raspberry Pi Zero W and a string of LEDs led to a deep dive into integrating Matter with Yocto, from GN and BitBake to GPIO control, commissioning and persistent Matter state.

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One Yocto Machine, Several WIC Layouts

Selecting different Yocto WIC partition layouts by image purpose and deployment target, while keeping a sensible machine-level default

Yocto Cheat Sheet: BitBake Commands, Recipes, Variables and Debugging

A practical Yocto cheat sheet covering common BitBake commands, recipes, bbappend files, variables, packages, debugging and useful build paths.

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Resizing an Embedded Linux Filesystem on First Boot

Automatically expanding a Yocto root filesystem on first boot, from repairing the GPT through to resizing the ext4 filesystem.

Populating a Partition

Use Yocto and WIC to include a dedicated ext4 data partition in your disk image.

Checking for Security Vulnerabilities in a Yocto Build

Yocto has a useful feature that allows it to automatically check any software packages

Yocto Structure

How to layout the structure of a Yocto project