Embedded Linux Projects Using Yocto Project Cookbook: Over 70 Hands-on Recipes for Professional Embedded Linux Developers to Optimize and Boost Their Yocto Know-How

The book describes how Yocto works, how to use it and how to tailor it to you needs in great extent.I would recomend it as a getting started with Yocto, altough there are some things to be aware of:- it focuses on Yocto 1.7, which came out in 2014, and is not more widely used. Differences are not "breaking" but there would be more to learn about.- it focuses on what to do, with not very datailed "behind the scenes", so you will read some command and their explanation 3 times, still not knowing why syntax is so weird or how recipes are processed.

Very good book ! It seems to be the best book about yocto project that I have ever seen.This book is conveniently structured to help you find the commands you need.This book covers the following topics: - How to setup the yocto build system on Wandboard(NXP i.MX6-based system) - Everything about BSP layer(u-boot, kernel and device tree) - Software layer(topics except BSP layer) - Topics for application development(toolchain and how to use the yocto project in various development environments - Eclipse/Qt/Make/CMake/SCons/Python/Java)I think you will never regret it.

Very good book, gets into deep detail of Yocto project setting and configurations.However, I don't know if this is only on my computer or what, but, at least PC + iPhone, the table of contents is messed up. I can revise my review if it is not a product related issue. Thanks.

Great, I learned more in the first 15 minutes than screwing around and reading the official docs for a week. Yocto takes a bit of getting use to, this book helps a LOT.

Useful content, but sloppy formatting makes reading difficult and annoying.

If you want a general and practical guide about YOCTO this book is not only a really helpful one but a also a perfect starting point.First chapters go deep into the first steps with YOCTO, so you will see what is needed to have YOCTO up and running, by setting the enviroment accordingly.From that point onwards, chapters 3 and 4, we are ready to work and configure BSP, Board Support Package, so that you can see all the software and packages needed to work with YOCTO.Once you jump into Chapters 4 and also 5, you will be able to go deeper with YOCTO, by having a look at its core. Furthermore, you will have a contact with different software packages in case you want to develop and application on top of YOCTO.In general I think this book is quite interesting, and almost everybody, who nowdays have a board like Raspberry Pi or a similar one, can quickly apply to these boards what is taught in this book.

The book is what the title says. It's a cookbook with a lot of samples which helps you to configure your Yocto projects. It's not a reference. For those who want to have some more detailed background information the title Embedded Linux Development with Yocto Project would be a good addition. But never mind the book gaves me some good ideas how to solve typical configuration tasks and gives detailed examples how to do it. I'm lucky to get this book for a preorder price, otherwise I would say compared with other packt ebooks the price could be a little bit lower.

If this book had been around back when I did embedded Linux it sure would have made my life easier. The author obviously knows the material very well and explains it using clear examples. I particularly liked the sections when he talks about building kernels. Overall a very good book and one I am glad is in my collection.

Great reference

BitBake is a complex beast. It is founded and extends on the notion of global shared variable, which can be a nasty thing in software development. Making BitBake layers is easy to get completely wrong. I've known developers who prefered to package whole of their program, complete with dependencies such as Node.js, into a single BitBake layer. Such a waste of time to produce a non-portable application in a system which promotes portability if you only allow it to do so. A full Yocto build can take several hours. Not surprisingly, it is quite important to write correct build recipes to avoid errors during the lengthy build process. This book presents Yocto in a more or less systematic manner. Examples in the book may be used as templates in your layers. Recommendations on best practices should give insights into portability of Yocto layers. However, the presentation suffers from empiricism and resorting to long-winded examples in order to explain simple BitBake language syntax.

Really good reference book to get you started with building Yocto Linux recipes