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Getting Started with Embedded Linux and Yocto

Very new to Embedded linux and atm trying to build a project that someone did a while ago.
It’s a yocto based for a custom board.

But at the moment, I’m trying to set up a a dev container with bitbake and all to pull off a hello world equivalent.
In the official documentation, I can see some set up related to VM’s. Are dev containers too small to build ELinux images?

  1. metro04776#0000

    Not at all.

    My first ever EL image was built on an ubuntu VM using yocto.

    Ensure to allocate more processor cores for the VM and you’re good to go.

  2. suren_27286#0000

    Nice. Have you used dev containers to build images?

  3. metro04776#0000

    No, I haven’t. What are those?

  4. suren_27286#0000

    Better explained : https://containers.dev/

    Dev containers are lightweight, pre-configured development environments ensuring consistent tools and dependencies across projects.
    I was thinking it would be great to use them for something like Embedded Linux and thought someone might have already done it.

  5. metro04776#0000

    Ok, thanks.
    I will look at this later.

  6. ming_58391#0000

    While I haven’t used dev containers, I have often used straight VirtualBox VMs and also standard Docker containers.
    There is also the CROPS Poky Container that is setup to allow you to run BitBake https://github.com/crops/poky-container
    You can also use WSL2 on Windows

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