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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.
14
15The following list describes what you can get from this manual:
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17-  `Introducing the Yocto Project <#overview-yp>`__\ *:* This chapter
18   provides an introduction to the Yocto Project. You will learn about
19   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.
23
24-  `The Yocto Project Development
25   Environment <#overview-development-environment>`__\ *:* This chapter
26   helps you get started understanding the Yocto Project development
27   environment. You will learn about open source, development hosts,
28   Yocto Project source repositories, workflows using Git and the Yocto
29   Project, a Git primer, and information about licensing.
30
31-  :doc:`/overview-manual/concepts` *:* This
32   chapter presents various concepts regarding the Yocto Project. You
33   can find conceptual information about components, development,
34   cross-toolchains, and so forth.
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36This manual does not give you the following:
37
38-  *Step-by-step Instructions for Development Tasks:* Instructional
39   procedures reside in other manuals within the Yocto Project
40   documentation set. For example, the :doc:`/dev-manual/index`
41   provides examples on how to perform
42   various development tasks. As another example, the
43   :doc:`/sdk-manual/index` manual contains detailed
44   instructions on how to install an SDK, which is used to develop
45   applications for target hardware.
46
47-  *Reference Material:* This type of material resides in an appropriate
48   reference manual. For example, system variables are documented in the
49   :doc:`/ref-manual/index`. As another
50   example, the :doc:`/bsp-guide/index` contains reference information on
51   BSPs.
52
53-  *Detailed Public Information Not Specific to the Yocto Project:* For
54   example, exhaustive information on how to use the Source Control
55   Manager Git is better covered with Internet searches and official Git
56   Documentation than through the Yocto Project documentation.
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58Other Information
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61Because this manual presents information for many different topics,
62supplemental information is recommended for full comprehension. For
63additional introductory information on the Yocto Project, see the
64:yocto_home:`Yocto Project Website <>`. If you want to build an image
65with no knowledge of Yocto Project as a way of quickly testing it out,
66see the :doc:`/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index` document.
67For a comprehensive list of links and other documentation, see the
68":ref:`Links and Related
69Documentation <resources-links-and-related-documentation>`"
70section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
71