<title>Welcome to Poky!</title>
<para>
- Poky is the the build tool in Yocto Project.
- It is at the heart of Yocto Project.
- You use Poky within Yocto Project to build the images (kernel software) for targeted hardware.
+ Poky is the build tool in Yocto Project.
+ Yocto Project uses Poky to build images (kernel, system, and application software) for
+ targeted hardware.
</para>
<para>
- Before jumping into Poky you should have an understanding of Yokto Project.
- Be sure you are familiar with the information in the Yocto Project Quick Start.
- You can find this documentation on the public <ulink rul='http://yoctoproject.org/'>Yocto Project Website</ulink>.
+ Before diving into Poky, it helps to have an understanding of the Yocto Project.
+ Especially useful for newcomers is the information in the Yocto Project Quick Start, which
+ you can find on the <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org">Yocto Project website</ulink>.
+ Specifically, the guide is
+ at <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/yocto-quick-start/yocto-project-qs.html"></ulink>
</para>
</section>
<title>What is Poky?</title>
<para>
- Poky provides an open source Linux, X11, Matchbox, GTK+, Pimlico, Clutter, and other <ulink url='http://gnome.org/mobile'>GNOME Mobile</ulink> technologies based full platform build tool within Yocto Project.
- It creates a focused, stable, subset of OpenEmbedded that can be easily and reliably built and developed upon.
- Poky fully supports a wide range of x86 ARM, MIPS and PowerPC hardware and device virtulisation.
+ Within the Yocto Project, Poky provides an open source, full-platform build tool based on
+ Linux, X11, Matchbox, GTK+, Pimlico, Clutter,
+ and other <ulink url='http://gnome.org/mobile'>GNOME Mobile</ulink> technologies.
+ It provides a focused and stable subset of OpenEmbedded upon which you can easily and
+ reliably build and develop.
+ Poky fully supports a wide range of x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC hardware and device virtualization.
</para>
<para>
- Poky is primarily a platform builder which generates filesystem images
+ Poky is primarily a platform builder that generates filesystem images
based on open source software such as the Kdrive X server, the Matchbox
- window manager, the GTK+ toolkit and the D-Bus message bus system. Images
- for many kinds of devices can be generated, however the standard example
- machines target QEMU full system emulation(x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC) and
+ window manager, the GTK+ toolkit and the D-Bus message bus system. While images
+ for many kinds of devices can be generated, the standard example
+ machines target QEMU full-system emulation (x86, ARM, MIPS and PowerPC) and
real reference boards for each of these architectures.
Poky's ability to boot inside a QEMU
- emulator makes it particularly suitable as a test platform for development
- of embedded software.
+ emulator makes it particularly suitable as a test platform for developing embedded software.
</para>
<para>
- An important component integrated within Poky is Sato, a GNOME Mobile
- based user interface environment.
- It is designed to work well with screens at very high DPI and restricted
- size, such as those often found on smartphones and PDAs. It is coded with
- focus on efficiency and speed so that it works smoothly on hand-held and
- other embedded hardware. It will sit neatly on top of any device
- using the GNOME Mobile stack, providing a well defined user experience.
+ An important component integrated within Poky is Sato, a GNOME Mobile-based
+ user interface environment.
+ It is designed to work well with screens that use very high DPI and have restricted
+ sizes, such as those often found on smartphones and PDAs.
+ Because Sato is coded for speed and efficiency, it works smoothly on hand-held and
+ other embedded hardware.
+ It sits nicely on top of any device that uses the GNOME Mobile stack and it results in
+ a well-defined user experience.
</para>
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<para>
-
- Poky has a growing open source community and is also backed up by commercial organisations including <ulink url="http://www.intel.com/">Intel Corporation</ulink>.
-
+ Poky has a growing open source community and is also backed up by commercial organizations
+ including <ulink url="http://www.intel.com/">Intel Corporation</ulink>.
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-manualoverview'>
<title>Documentation Overview</title>
<para>
- The Poky User Guide is split into sections covering different aspects of Poky.
- The <link linkend='usingpoky'>'Using Poky' section</link> gives an overview of the components that make up Poky followed by information about using Poky and debugging images created in Yocto Project.
- The <link linkend='extendpoky'>'Extending Poky' section</link> gives information about how to extend and customise Poky along with advice on how to manage these changes.
- The <link linkend='platdev'>'Platform Development with Poky' section</link> gives information about interaction between Poky and target hardware for common platform development tasks such as software development, debugging and profiling.
- The rest of the manual consists of several reference sections each giving details on a specific section of Poky functionality.
+ The sections in this reference manual describe different aspects of Poky.
+ The <link linkend='usingpoky'>'Using Poky' section</link> provides an overview of the components
+ that make up Poky followed by information about using Poky and debugging images created in Yocto Project.
+ The <link linkend='extendpoky'>'Extending Poky'</link> and
+ <link linkend='bsp'>'Board Support Packages'</link> sections provide information
+ about how to extend and customize Poky along with advice on how to manage these changes.
+ The <link linkend='platdev'>'Platform Development with Poky' section</link> provides information about
+ interaction between Poky and target hardware for common platform development tasks such as software
+ development, debugging and profiling.
+ The rest of the manual consists of several reference sections, each providing details on a specific
+ area of Poky functionality.
</para>
<para>
- This manual applies to Poky Release 3.3 (Green).
+ This manual applies to Poky Release 4.0 (laverne).
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-requirements'>
<title>System Requirements</title>
<para>
- We recommend Debian-based distributions, in particular a recent Ubuntu
- release (10.04 or newer), as the host system for Poky. Nothing in Poky is
- distribution specific and other distributions will most likely work as long
- as the appropriate prerequisites are installed - we know of Poky being used
+ Although we recommend Debian-based distributions
+ (Ubuntu 10.04 or newer) as the host system for Poky, nothing in Poky is
+ distribution-specific. Consequently, other distributions should work as long
+ as the appropriate prerequisites are installed. For example, we know of Poky being used
successfully on Redhat, SUSE, Gentoo and Slackware host systems.
- For information on what you need to develop images using Yocto Project and Poky
- you should see the Yocto Project Quick Start on the public
- <ulink rul='http://yoctoproject.org/'>Yocto Project Website</ulink>.
+ For information on what you need to develop images using Yocto Project and Poky,
+ you should see the Yocto Project Quick Start on the <ulink url="http://www.yoctoproject.org">
+ Yocto Project website</ulink>.
+ The direct link to the quick start is
+ <ulink url='http://yoctoproject.org/docs/yocto-quick-start/yocto-project-qs.html'></ulink>.
</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-getit-releases'>
<title>Releases</title>
- <para>Periodically, we make releases of Poky and these are available
+ <para>Periodically, we make releases of Poky available
at <ulink url='http://pokylinux.org/releases/'/>.
- These are more stable and tested than the nightly development images.</para>
+ These releases are more stable and more rigorously tested than the nightly development images.</para>
</section>
<section id='intro-getit-nightly'>
<para>
We make nightly builds of Poky for testing purposes and to make the
latest developments available. The output from these builds is available
- at <ulink url='http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org/'/>
- where the numbers increase for each subsequent build and can be used to reference it.
+ at <ulink url='http://autobuilder.pokylinux.org/'/>.
+ The numbers used in the builds increase for each subsequent build and can be used to
+ reference a specific build.
</para>
<para>
- Automated builds are available for "standard" Poky and for Poky SDKs and toolchains as well
- as any testing versions we might have such as poky-bleeding. The toolchains can
+ Automated builds are available for "standard" Poky and for Poky SDKs and toolchains.
+ Additionally, testing versions such as poky-bleeding can be made available as
+ 'experimental' builds.
+ The toolchains can
be used either as external standalone toolchains or can be combined with Poky as a
prebuilt toolchain to reduce build time. Using the external toolchains is simply a
case of untarring the tarball into the root of your system (it only creates files in
<title>Development Checkouts</title>
<para>
- Poky is available from our GIT repository located at
+ Poky is available from our git repository located at
git://git.pokylinux.org/poky.git; a web interface to the repository
can be accessed at <ulink url='http://git.pokylinux.org/'/>.
</para>
<para>
The 'master' is where the deveopment work takes place and you should use this if you're
- after to work with the latest cutting edge developments. It is possible trunk
- can suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed and
- if this is undesireable we recommend using one of the release branches.
+ interested in working with the latest cutting-edge developments. It is possible for the trunk
+ to suffer temporary periods of instability while new features are developed.
+ If these periods of instability are undesireable, we recommend using one of the release branches.
</para>
</section>
</section>
