Category: Training
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Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2025: devtool hands-on class slides
Happy to share the slides from my Devtool hands-on class presentation at Yocto Project Virtual Summit 2025. Devtool is a very helpful tool for creating and maintaining recipes. I’m very happy I accepted to take over the traditional devtool hands-on class at the Yocto Project Summit in 2024, because devtool provided invaluable in my Yocto…
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Mixing Yocto training and consulting in Italy
Training or consulting? In partnership with Amarula Solutions, I was in discussion with an Italian company, Novavision. Moving to a new hardware platform, they wanted to take the opportunity to gain ownership of the tools that are used to build their products, here Yocto, instead of subcontracting this part of system development as they did…
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Yocto bookmark and new training dates
Bookmark After a brief announcement two weeks ago, here is the new Yocto command reference bookmark, in a format you can print and modify, according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. In particular, the PDF version is ready to be printed. This way you will get 5 bookmarks on double-sided A4 paper.…
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Yocto: variable overrides tricks
I discovered a intriguing phenomenon while preparing my How to test the latest mainline Linux kernel or bootloader presentation at OpenEmbedded Workshop 2025. It turned out there was something incomplete in my understanding of BitBake variable overrides. Let’s take the example of a meta-mainline recipe from my Kernel Recipes: SRC_URI = “git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git;branch=linux-6.13.y;protocol=https” Then, depending on…
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Introducing Yocto Project Overview Seminars
Following discussions with a customer, and as a teaser for our Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded course, we are now offering a 1-day overview seminar on this topic. The main goal is to give you a clear view of the Yocto Project and the value it can bring to your embedded Linux device projects. You will…