What this book covers

Chapter 1, The Build System, describes the use of the Poky build system and extends it with the Freescale BSP community layer. It also describes common build system configurations and features used to optimize the building of target images.

Chapter 2, The BSP Layer, guides you through the customization of the BSP for your own product. It then explains how to configure, modify, build, and debug the U-Boot bootloader, the Linux kernel, and its device tree.

Chapter 3, The Software Layer, describes the process of creating a new software layer to hold new applications, services, or modifications to existing packages, as well as discussing a release process for license compliance.

Chapter 4, Application Development, starts with toolchains and the Application Development Toolkit (ADT), and deals with application development in detail, including development environments such as Eclipse and Qt creator.

Chapter 5, Debugging, Tracing, and Profiling, discusses debugging tools and techniques, and explores the tracing functionalities offered by the Linux kernel, along with some of the user-space-tracing and profiling tools that make use of them.