Xilinx Repo Manifests for the Yocto Project Build System

This repository provides Repo manifests to setup the Yocto build system for supported Xilinx products.

The Yocto Project allows the creation of custom linux distributions for embedded systems, including Xilinx-based systems. It is a collection of git repositories known as layers each of which provides recipes to build software packages as well as configuration information.

Repo is a tool that enables the management of many git repositories given a single manifest file. Tell repo to fetch a manifest from this repository and it will fetch the git repositories specified in the manifest and, by doing so, setup a Yocto Project build environment for you!

Getting Started

1. Install Repo.

Download the Repo script:

$ curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > repo

Make it executable:

$ chmod a+x repo

Move it on to your system path:

$ sudo mv repo /usr/local/bin/

If it is correctly installed, you should see a Usage message when invoked with the help flag.

$ repo --help

2. Initialize a Repo client.

Create an empty directory to hold your working files:

$ XILINX_SOURCES=/path/to/xilinx/sources
$ mkdir -p $XILINX_SOURCES
$ cd $XILINX_SOURCES

Tell Repo where to find the manifest:

$ repo init -u git://gitenterprise.xilinx.com/Yocto/yocto-manifests.git

A successful initialization will end with a message stating that Repo is initialized in your working directory. Your directory should now contain a .repo directory where repo control files such as the manifest are stored but you should not need to touch this directory.

To test out a known stable yocto version (example: fido), type:

$ repo init -u git://gitenterprise.xilinx.com/Yocto/yocto-manifests.git -m meta-xilinx.xml -b fido
$ repo sync

To get back to the latest master branch, type:

$ repo init -u git://gitenterprise.xilinx.com/Yocto/yocto-manifests.git -m meta-xilinx.xml -b master
$ repo sync

To learn more about repo, look at http://source.android.com/source/version-control.html

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3. Fetch all the repositories:

$ repo sync

Now go turn on the coffee machine as this may take 20 minutes depending on your connection.

Staying Up to Date

To pick up the latest changes for all source repositories, run:

$ repo sync

Customize

Sooner or later, you'll want to customize the Repo manifest to point at different repositories and branches or pull in additional meta-layers.

Clone this repository (or fork it on gitenterprise):

$ git clone git://gitenterprise.xilinx.com/Yocto/yocto-manifests.git

Make your changes (and contribute them back if they are generally useful), and then re-initialize your repo client

$ repo init -u <file:///path/to/your/git/repository.git>