[poky] [PATCH 033/186] ref-manual: Some additional edits
Stoicescu Cornel
corneliux.stoicescu at intel.com
Tue Aug 20 02:45:15 PDT 2013
From: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com>
Made a pass through this before sending it out for review.
(From yocto-docs rev: 702f65bb497b157dfd2635f9b13ffd679dda9d0a)
Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
---
documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml | 35 +++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
index 583d204..79d1654 100644
--- a/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
+++ b/documentation/ref-manual/technical-details.xml
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_QS_URL;#yp-intro'>Introducing the Yocto Project Development Environment</ulink>"
section of the Yocto Project Quick Start.
This expanded discussion presents a deeper level of detail regarding
- sources of input, generated output, and controlling
+ input, output, and
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#metadata'>Metadata</ulink>.
</para>
@@ -179,16 +179,16 @@
</para>
<para>
- This paragraph will introduce the main blocks of the preceding figure
- to overview and organize the remainder of the section:
+ The generalized Yocto Project Devevelopment Environment consists of
+ severl functional areas:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><emphasis>User Configuration:</emphasis>
- Methods by with the user can directly control the build
- process.</para></listitem>
+ Metadata you can use to control the build process.
+ </para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Metadata Layers:</emphasis>
Various layers that provide software, machine, and
distro Metadata.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><emphasis>Soure Files:</emphasis>
+ <listitem><para><emphasis>Source Files:</emphasis>
Upstream releases, local projects, and SCMs.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><emphasis>Build System:</emphasis>
Processes inside the BitBake "box".
@@ -196,14 +196,14 @@
patches, completes compilation, analyzes output for package
generation, creates and tests packages, generates images, and
generates cross-development tools.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><emphasis>Package Feeds</emphasis>
+ <listitem><para><emphasis>Package Feeds:</emphasis>
Package feeds into the BitBake process.</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><emphasis>Images</emphasis>
+ <listitem><para><emphasis>Images:</emphasis>
Images produced by the development process.
Where do they go?
Can you mess with them (i.e. freely delete them or move them?).
</para></listitem>
- <listitem><para><emphasis>Application Development SDK</emphasis>
+ <listitem><para><emphasis>Application Development SDK:</emphasis>
Cross-development tools that are produced along with an image
or separately with BitBake.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -213,9 +213,13 @@
<title>User Configuration</title>
<para>
- User configuration affects how you define the build.
+ User configuration helps define the build.
+ Through user configuration, you can tell BitBake the
+ target architecture for which you are building the image,
+ where to store downloaded source, and other build properties.
The following figure shows an expanded representation of the
- user configuration in the Yocto Project development environment:
+ user configuration box of the Yocto Project development
+ environment:
</para>
<mediaobject>
@@ -228,8 +232,8 @@
<para>
BitBake needs some basic configuration files in order to complete
a build.
- These files are <filename>*.conf</filename> files and the
- minimally necessary ones reside as example files in the
+ These files are <filename>*.conf</filename> files.
+ The minimally necessary ones reside as example files in the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;#source-directory'>Source Directory</ulink>.
For simplicity, this section refers to the Source Directory as
the "Poky Directory."
@@ -328,8 +332,7 @@
<filename>auto.conf</filename> are not created by the environment
initialization script.
If you want these configuration files, you must create them
- yourself.
- Here a bit about what these files do:
+ yourself:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><emphasis><filename>site.conf</filename>:</emphasis>
I don't really know what this does.
@@ -348,7 +351,7 @@
</para>
<para>
- All configuration files can undergo edits to further define
+ You can edit all configuration files to further define
the build.
This process is represented by the "User Configuration Edits"
box in the figure.
--
1.7.9.5
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