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| author | Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> | 2012-12-11 12:07:58 -0600 |
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| committer | Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-01-07 14:43:25 +0000 |
| commit | ed0a240e1632682ec4c33341f3e24ad71773cdfc (patch) | |
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documentation: Rename of poky-ref-manual folder to ref-manual.
Changing the folder that holds the YP Reference Manual to be
"ref-manual". This will help with confustion over the manual's
intended purpose.
(From yocto-docs rev: 1106442964b5080cb0b6b3bd3af32e9407c0f7c1)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/eclipse/html/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky-components.html b/documentation/ref-manual/eclipse/html/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky-components.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ccd3ae5 --- /dev/null +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/eclipse/html/poky-ref-manual/usingpoky-components.html @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ +<html> +<head> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> +<title>3.1. Yocto Project Components</title> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../book.css"> +<meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1"> +<link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Yocto Project Reference Manual"> +<link rel="up" href="technical-details.html" title="Chapter 3. Technical Details"> +<link rel="prev" href="technical-details.html" title="Chapter 3. Technical Details"> +<link rel="next" href="usingpoky-components-bitbake.html" title="3.1.1. BitBake"> +</head> +<body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="section" title="3.1. Yocto Project Components"> +<div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> +<a name="usingpoky-components"></a>3.1. Yocto Project Components</h2></div></div></div> +<p> + The BitBake task executor together with various types of configuration files form the + OpenEmbedded Core. + This section overviews the BitBake task executor and the + configuration files by describing what they are used for and how they interact. + </p> +<p> + BitBake handles the parsing and execution of the data files. + The data itself is of various types: + </p> +<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> +<li class="listitem"><p><span class="emphasis"><em>Recipes:</em></span> Provides details about particular + pieces of software</p></li> +<li class="listitem"><p><span class="emphasis"><em>Class Data:</em></span> An abstraction of common build + information (e.g. how to build a Linux kernel).</p></li> +<li class="listitem"><p><span class="emphasis"><em>Configuration Data:</em></span> Defines machine-specific settings, + policy decisions, etc. + Configuration data acts as the glue to bind everything together.</p></li> +</ul></div> +<p> + For more information on data, see the + "<a class="link" href="../dev-manual/yocto-project-terms.html" target="_self">Yocto Project Terms</a>" + section in the Yocto Project Development Manual. + </p> +<p> + BitBake knows how to combine multiple data sources together and refers to each data source + as a layer. + For information on layers, see the + "<a class="link" href="../dev-manual/understanding-and-creating-layers.html" target="_self">Understanding and + Creating Layers</a>" section of the Yocto Project Development Manual. + </p> +<p> + Following are some brief details on these core components. + For more detailed information on these components see the + "<a class="link" href="ref-structure.html" title="Chapter 5. Source Directory Structure">Directory Structure</a>" chapter. + </p> +</div></body> +</html> |
