summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/documentation/dev-manual
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2011-08-17 08:44:56 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2011-08-23 18:46:37 -0700
commit34de4996855932cd7f6af53dc7b4453782e1b764 (patch)
tree8f393eb429695f738d4d04b539b4fbd7fd0df6d5 /documentation/dev-manual
parent266b83c8e13e07c01256bd81a308ede117cb555b (diff)
downloadast2050-yocto-poky-34de4996855932cd7f6af53dc7b4453782e1b764.zip
ast2050-yocto-poky-34de4996855932cd7f6af53dc7b4453782e1b764.tar.gz
documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml: Updated term list.
I added a reference to the Image appendix for the description of images. Also, added a new term "meta-toolchain." (From yocto-docs rev: a9c1110ec7499afa669416c00bc81573fcbf920d) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'documentation/dev-manual')
-rw-r--r--documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
index fbb9d5f..f0bb08e 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-newbie.xml
@@ -136,7 +136,12 @@
with BitBake (baked) and made part of a root filesystem.
Images are both the binary output that runs on specific hardware and for specific
use cases as well as a metadata recipe that BitBake processes to generate the
- binary output.</para></listitem>
+ binary output.
+ For a list of the supported image types that the Yocto Project provides, see the
+ <ulink url='http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html#ref-images'>
+ Reference: Images</ulink> appendix in
+ <ulink url='http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.1/poky-ref-manual/poky-ref-manual.html'>
+ The Yocto Project Reference Manual</ulink>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Recipe</emphasis> - A set of instructions for building packages.
A recipe describes where you get source code and which patches to apply.
Recipes describe dependencies for libraries or for other recipes and they
@@ -155,6 +160,14 @@
<listitem><para><emphasis>Metadata</emphasis> - A term used throughout the Yocto Project
documentation that refers to the files that BitBake parses when building an image.
Metadata includes recipes, classes, and configuration files.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><emphasis>Meta-Toolchain</emphasis> - A collection of software development
+ tools and utilities that allow you to develop software for targeted architectures.
+ These toolchains contain cross-compilers, linkers, and debuggers that are specific to
+ an architecure.
+ You can use the Yocto Project to build meta-toolchains in tarball form that when
+ unpacked contain the development tools you need to cross-compile and test your software.
+ The Yocto Project ships with images that contain toolchains for supported architectures
+ as well.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Configuration File</emphasis>: Configuration information in the
<filename>.conf</filename> files provides global definitions of variables.
The <filename>build/conf/local.conf</filename> configuration file defines user-defined variables
OpenPOWER on IntegriCloud