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For more information regarding Yocto build system, go to its [[:Category:Yocto|dedicated category page]]

XUELK MVM is already configured to build this Yocto version/configuration, however users typically don't use a VirtualBox VM for Yocto builds for performance reasons.

You can refer to [http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.8/mega-manual/mega-manual.html#yp-resources Yocto manual setup section] for a list of supported Linux distribution and their configuration.

XUELK Yocto BSP uses [https://code.google.com/p/git-repo/ git-repo] tool to fetch all the required git repositories to build

dvdk@dvdk-vm:~/lynx$ ./repo init -u git@git.dave.eu:lynx/lynx-bsp.git -b lynx-fido

dvdk@dvdk-vm:~/lynx$ ./repo sync

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Please note that even the basic root file system requires a few hours to build on a mid-hi range desktop (4-6 cores, 8-12 GiB RAM) also depending on your Internet connection speed (all sources are fetched from the network). Nearly 20GiB of disk space is required for the build. Moreover, building inside the DVDK adds some overhead, since the performances of a virtual machine are reduced if compared to the physical hardware. Thus, it's recommended to check the hardware capabilities of the host system and, when building with Yocto is required, developers should consider the following options:

The resulting files (kernel, devicetree and u-boot binaries, plus .tar.gz root file system) will then be available inside ''build/tmp/deploy/images/sbc-lynx''.

To build additional packages the user must first enter the directory where the <code>lynx-setup-release.sh</code> is placed and source it

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