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= 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'''
 * [wiki:Yocto/Building#Pre-CompiledBinary Pre-Compiled Binaries]
 * [wiki:Yocto/Building Building/Installing Yocto Linux for the Ventana Family]
 * [wiki:Yocto/packages Building/Installing Packages for Yocto / Yocto for the Ventana Family ]
 * [wiki:Yocto/SDK SDK For Developers]
 * [wiki:Yocto/NativeCompile Native Compiling - SDK]
 * [https://github.com/Gateworks/meta-gateworks Source Code] presented as an Yocto Layer
  * [https://github.com/Gateworks/meta-gateworks/commits/master Gateworks Yocto BSP layer changelog] - Create a Github account and you can follow changes to our repositories to be updated when commits occur 
  * [wiki:Yocto/images Explanation of our images]
 * [wiki:Yocto/packages Add and remove packages]
 * [wiki:Yocto/services Configure services]
 * [wiki:Yocto/Wireless Setup Wireless communication]
 * [wiki:Yocto/Video_Out Ventana Video Output]
 * [wiki:Yocto/Video_In Ventana Video Input]
 * [wiki:Yocto/gstreamer GStreamer Information for Video / Audio]
 * [wiki:Yocto/qt 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@gateworks.com to ask if we can add it in our standard board-support packages.