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authorBill Traynor <wmat@alphatroop.com>2013-02-04 17:02:38 -0500
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2014-01-13 22:00:25 +0000
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user-manual-hello.xml: Initial commits for hello world.
Initial commits for the hello world chapter. Signed-off-by: Bill Traynor <wmat@alphatroop.com>
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happening, however, further information can be found
in the Metadata chapter.
</para>
+ <para>The overall goal of this exercise is to create a Hello
+ World example utilizing the concepts BitBake uses to
+ build and construct a complete including Tasks,
+ Layers. This is how modern projects such as
+ OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project utilize BitBake,
+ therefore it provides an excellent starting point
+ for understanding BitBake.
+ </para>
+ <para>It should be noted that this chapter was inspired by
+ and draws heavily from several sources:
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <ulink href="http://www.mail-archive.com/yocto@yoctoproject.org/msg09379.html">Mailing List post - The BitBake equivalent of "Hello, World!"</ulink>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <ulink href="http://hambedded.org/blog/2012/11/24/from-bitbake-hello-world-to-an-image/">Hembedded Linux blog post - From Bitbake Hello World to an Image</ulink>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+
+ </para>
</section>
</chapter>