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4The Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual
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7Welcome
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10Welcome to the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual! This manual
11introduces the Yocto Project by providing concepts, software overviews,
12best-known-methods (BKMs), and any other high-level introductory
13information suitable for a new Yocto Project user.
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15The following list describes what you can get from this manual:
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17-  :ref:`overview-manual/yp-intro:introducing the yocto project`\ *:*
18   This chapter provides an introduction to the Yocto Project. You will learn
19   about features and challenges of the Yocto Project, the layer model,
20   components and tools, development methods, the
21   :term:`Poky` reference distribution, the
22   OpenEmbedded build system workflow, and some basic Yocto terms.
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24-  :ref:`overview-manual/development-environment:the yocto project development environment`\ *:*
25   This chapter helps you get started understanding the Yocto Project
26   development environment. You will learn about open source, development hosts,
27   Yocto Project source repositories, workflows using Git and the Yocto
28   Project, a Git primer, and information about licensing.
29
30-  :doc:`/overview-manual/concepts` *:* This
31   chapter presents various concepts regarding the Yocto Project. You
32   can find conceptual information about components, development,
33   cross-toolchains, and so forth.
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35This manual does not give you the following:
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37-  *Step-by-step Instructions for Development Tasks:* Instructional
38   procedures reside in other manuals within the Yocto Project
39   documentation set. For example, the :doc:`/dev-manual/index`
40   provides examples on how to perform
41   various development tasks. As another example, the
42   :doc:`/sdk-manual/index` manual contains detailed
43   instructions on how to install an SDK, which is used to develop
44   applications for target hardware.
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46-  *Reference Material:* This type of material resides in an appropriate
47   reference manual. For example, system variables are documented in the
48   :doc:`/ref-manual/index`. As another
49   example, the :doc:`/bsp-guide/index` contains reference information on
50   BSPs.
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52-  *Detailed Public Information Not Specific to the Yocto Project:* For
53   example, exhaustive information on how to use the Source Control
54   Manager Git is better covered with Internet searches and official Git
55   Documentation than through the Yocto Project documentation.
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57Other Information
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60Because this manual presents information for many different topics,
61supplemental information is recommended for full comprehension. For
62additional introductory information on the Yocto Project, see the
63:yocto_home:`Yocto Project Website <>`. If you want to build an image
64with no knowledge of Yocto Project as a way of quickly testing it out,
65see the :doc:`/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index` document.
66For a comprehensive list of links and other documentation, see the
67":ref:`Links and Related
68Documentation <resources-links-and-related-documentation>`"
69section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
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