✅ Yocto Project Overview and Yocto Project History

✅ Yocto Project Architecture & Fundamentals

✅ OpenEmbedded vs Poky Vs Yocto Project

✅ Bitbake & Configuration Files

Exercises/Assignments

✅ Setting up the bare bitbake

✅ Testing bitbake to build the recipe

✅ Introduction to recipes and fundamental overview

✅ Metadata - bbclass, layers & Recipes

✅ Bitbake Functions & Tasks

✅ Bitbake variables

✅ Inheriting the bitbake class

✅ Extending the recipes with bbappend

✅ Recipe dependency management

✅ Task Logs & Running specific tasks

✅ Debug statements

✅ Dependency graphs

✅ Displaying variables and metadata

Exercises/Assignments

✅ Create a Yocto Layer

✅ Writing a Simple Bitbake Class

✅ Write a simple helloworld recipe

✅ Writing Bitbake Functions & Tasks

✅ Playing around with Bitbake Variables

✅ Extending the Recipe with bbappend

✅ Troubleshooting the build failures and fix it accordingly

✅ Introduction to Yocto Layers

✅ Type of Layers

✅ Introduction to BSP Layer

✅ Source Code walk through of BSP Layer for Platform

Exercises/Assignments

✅ Creating a meta layer and including it in the Yocto Project

✅ Creating custom BSP layer and Adding a new machine

✅ Brief introduction about U-Boot

✅ U-Boot configuration, building & flashing

✅ Brief introuction about the uboot configuration file and sources

Exercises/Assignments

✅ Adding a command in the uboot

✅ Extending the Yocto recipe & applying the custom patches

✅ Brief introduction about the the Linux Kernel

✅ Kernel Configuration building and updating

✅ Brief introduction about recipes-kernel in BSP layer

✅ Appending, Extending the recipe-kernel in BSP layer

✅ Using the default configuration for kernel building

✅ Patching, updating the kernel configuration files and sources

✅ Basics of Linux Device Driver / Kernel Modules

Exercises/Assignments

✅ Making the kernel configuration changes & testing the same

✅ Creating the configuration fragments and applying the same

✅ Making the kernel changes for testing

✅ Creating & applying the kernel patches with Yocto

✅ Applying the patches using scc scripts

✅ Building out of tree kernel module

✅ Adding the devices drivers in the kernel and applying the patches

✅ Need for Root Filesystem

✅ What is Root Filesystem?

✅ Adding the Packages in Filesystem

✅ Customized package selection and configuration

✅ Root Filesystem post processing

✅ Init Managers – Sysv Init and Systemd

Exercises/Assignments

✅ Custom Root Filesystem image creation with selected packages

✅ Adding, removing the application packages from Root Filesystem

✅ Writing a recipe to build a source from the git & Adding it to RootFS

✅ Adding custom SysV service startup on system bootup

✅ SDK & eSDK

✅ Brief on Devtool

Exercises/Assignments

✅ Preparing SDK & eSDK

✅ Creating a new recipe with Devtool

✅ Modify existing application with Devtool

✅ Using Devtool to Modify existing Kernel Module