Yocto Linux

Gateworks supports Yocto Linux for the Ventana Product Family Board Support Package. Yocto is a linux build system that is used by many Embedded Linux Distributions (ie Angstrom, Poky, and more).

Yocto is a linux build system derived from Yocto and offers stable snapshot and excellent documentation.

Latest Supported Release

Yocto 1.8

Yocto Information

• Pre-Compiled Binaries
• Building/Installing Yocto Linux for the Ventana Family
• Building/Installing Packages for Yocto / Yocto for the Ventana Family
• SDK For Developers
• Native Compiling - SDK
• ​Source Code presented as an Yocto Layer
  • ​Gateworks Yocto BSP layer changelog - Create a Github account and you can follow changes to our repositories to be updated when commits occur
  • Explanation of our images
• Add and remove packages
• Configure services
• Setup Wireless communication
• Ventana Video Output
• Ventana Video Input
• GStreamer Information for Video / Audio
• QT in Yocto

Kernel Support

We aim to provide the following in our default kernel configurations used for our Yocto BSP:

• up-to-date Wireless drivers via linux-backports
  • commonly used 802.11ac / 802.11n / 802.11a/b/g Qualcomm / Atheros chip based cards
  • commonly used USB based wireless devices
  • commonly used USB based bluetooth host controllers
• on-board embedded peripherals (ie i2c and spi based peripherals used on our boards)
• Gateworks expansion peripherals

In other words we specifically do not typically include support for PCI sound-cards, PCI video-capture cards, and a full suite of USB based peripherals. We try to include support for peripherals commonly used with our boards.

If you have a particular add-on card (PCI or USB) that you are using with our boards and have a stable open-source driver for it feel free to contact support@… to ask if we can add it in our standard board-support packages.