Development Guide

Introduction This article provides step-by-step instructions for building a Linux image with TechNexion's Yocto BSP, which supports the i.MX series of processors. System Requirements Building an image from source with Yocto requires a host wit...

Follow the steps to build yocto (as described in this page: tn-imx-yocto-manifest ) all the way up to configuring yocto build, before "bitbake" command to start building yocto (The line containing DISTRO=XXX MACHINE=YYY source tn-setup-release....

Introduction The virtual machine is to reduce the complexity of setting up the development environment for building Android, Yocto, and Ubuntu images for TechNexion SOM/baseboards. The virtual machine is based on Ubuntu-20.04 LTS x64 architecture....

Introduction A customer of ours recently asked about some problems they were seeing when running an application on a Pico module. They were using Yocto. Many Linux applications, especially Qt applications, require other packages (files, and librar...

Introduction This article discusses how to set a root password within Yocto metadata so that images are built with a root password included. We show how to do this with both a cleartext password as well as encrypted version of the password. In l...

Introduction NFS (short for Network FileSystem) has been around for a long time. It is an early form of a network file sharing system, where a server can export part of its filesystem so that this can be mounted by a client on the local network. T...