The Yocto project is an Embedded Linux distribution builder that makes use of several other open source projects.
The Yocto project provides a reference build system for embedded Linux called Poky, which has the Bitbake and Openembedded-Core (OE-Core) projects. The purpose of Poky is to build the components needed for an embedded Linux product
> A Bootloader Image
> A Linux Kernel Image
> A rootfile system (RFS) image
> Toolchains and software development kits for application development.
From these observations we can say that Yocto project covers the needs of both system and application developers.
In the next post we will get in details like what is Poky , OpenEmbedded-Core and how to get start with these tools.
