If you are working with embedded Linux you will be aware that the Yocto Project is a key component for generating device firmware. This intensive two day workshop will teach you how to make effective use of OpenEmbedded and Yocto Project to create highly functional, reliable system images for your target device. It will show you how to select packages, how to customise system behaviour, and how to create your own meta layers. With the relevant information under your belt you will have your embedded Linux system up and running in no time!

Audience
This workshop is ideal for software engineers who are familiar with embedded devices but need to apply that knowledge to Linux development,
and to those who are familiar with Linux, but want to apply that knowledge to embedded systems.

Prerequisites
Attendees should know C/C++ pretty well, and be familiar with Linux command-line tools such as 'find', 'grep' and 'make'

Laptop setup
About half of this workshop is dedicated to hands-on sessions. Consequently you will need to bring a laptop along with you. Pretty much any recent laptop be fine so long as it has at least dual cores and more than 4 GB memory, but *no Macintoshes*. I will provide USB flash drives (which are yours to keep) with a copy of Ubuntu pre-installed. You just need boot your laptop from the USB drive. Please note that this means you must be able to able to change your BIOS settings to boot from an external USB device using legacy boot mode