From 470beb5c1b8ea0b601e9751c1eb3d494d0b18fed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Allum Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 14:47:12 +0000 Subject: rename readme.txt git-svn-id: https://svn.o-hand.com/repos/poky/trunk@1007 311d38ba-8fff-0310-9ca6-ca027cbcb966 --- README | 61 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 61 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..937726c3f --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +Introduction +== + +'Poky' is a combined cross build system and linux distribution based +upon OpenEmbedded. It features support for building X11/Matchbox/GTK +based filesystem images for various embedded devices and boards. + + +Required Packages +=== + +Running Poky on Debian based distributions requires the following +extra packages be installed; + +build-essential +diffstat +texi2html +cvs +subversion +gawk + +You also need to install the qemu from http://debian.o-hand.com/. +Alternatively poky can build qemu itself, but for this you need the +following packages installed; + +gcc-3.4 +libsdl1.2-dev +zlib1g-dev + +You will also need to comment out ASSUME_PROVIDED += "qemu-native"' in +build/conf/local.conf. + +Building under other distro's such as Fedora is known to work. Use the above +package names as a guide for dependencies. + +Building An Image +=== + +Simply run; + +% source poky-init-build-env +% bitbake oh-image-pda + +This will result in an ext2 image and kernel for qemu arm (see scripts dir). + +To build for other machine types see MACHINE in build/conf/local.conf + +Notes: +=== + +Useful Links; + +OpenedHand +http://openedhand.com + +Poky Homepage +http://projects.o-hand.com/poky + +OE Homepage and wiki +http://openembedded.org + -- cgit v1.2.3