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KOAN Embedded Software Engineering

KOAN is an Italian software house, specialized in embedded and real time Linux software solutions on RISC platforms of the ARM family (Raspberry, Atmel, Freescale, NXP). Founded on 1996 from diversified experiences, is a supplier of embedded software systems for industrial automation, telecommunications, automotive, mechatronics and aerospace.

What is this wiki?

This is a collection of useful notes about Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded, GNU/Linux distributions aimed for embedded devices developed.

Problem solving - Howto

• FAQ
• Setup NFS root filesystem
• Setup an external toolchain with Yocto
• Fixing Perl Locale Errors in a Clean Ubuntu Install
• Using VMware Player to run Linux training

Openembedded Core

• Submit patches to Openembedded
• Commit Patch Message Guidelines
• OE-Core Standalone Setup

Openembedded Debugging

• Openembedded debugging
• Packages information list

Yocto Project

• Yocto Project my own quick start
• Yocto versus Poky versus Angstrom
• Yocto Project reference Manual
• Yocto source Repositories
• OpenEmbedded layers index
• Yocto version releases
• Migrating metadata to OE-Core
• OE/Yocto prebuilt toolchains
• Howto build a kernel module out of the kernel tree
• Howto speed up Yocto build
• bitbake options
• Directories and installation variables
• How to add libstdc++ to a Yocto (Poky) image
• How to run a script at boot automatically
• Create patches using quilt
• Building Software from an External Source
• opkg command options
• Managing RDEPENDS into a recipe
• Extract the list of packages into a Yocto image
• Toaster setup and usage
• Python assignment operators
• Skip connectivity checks
• Set default root password
• Yocto package management

Qt

• Install Qt 5 on Ubuntu

Hardware and SBC

• iMX6 definitive GPIO guide

Documents

• ARM cores list
• systemd vs sysvinit
• How to create and submit Linux kernel patch using GIT
• Development with VMware
• How to Shrink a VirtualBox Virtual Machine

About us

• Who we are