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<chapter id='overview-manual-intro'>
<title>The Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual</title>
<section id='overview-manual-welcome'>
<title>Welcome</title>
<para>
Welcome to the Yocto Project Overview and Concepts Manual!
This manual introduces the Yocto Project by providing concepts,
software overviews, best-known-methods (BKMs), and any other
high-level introductory information suitable for a new Yocto
Project user.
</para>
<para>
The following list describes what you can get from this manual:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<emphasis><link linkend='overview-yp'>Introducing the Yocto Project</link>:</emphasis>
This chapter provides an introduction to the Yocto
Project.
You will learn about features and challenges of the
Yocto Project, the layer model, components and tools,
development methods, the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#poky'>Poky</ulink>
reference distribution, the OpenEmbedded build system
workflow, and some basic Yocto terms.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<emphasis><link linkend='overview-development-environment'>The Yocto Project Development Environment</link>:</emphasis>
This chapter helps you get started understanding the
Yocto Project development environment.
You will learn about open source, development hosts,
Yocto Project source repositories, workflows using Git
and the Yocto Project, a Git primer, and information
about licensing.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<emphasis><link linkend='overview-manual-concepts'>Yocto Project Concepts</link>:</emphasis>
This chapter presents various concepts regarding the
Yocto Project.
You can find conceptual information about components,
development, cross-toolchains, and so forth.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
<para>
This manual does not give you the following:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<emphasis>Step-by-step Instructions for Development Tasks:</emphasis>
Instructional procedures reside in other manuals within
the Yocto Project documentation set.
For example, the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;'>Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual</ulink>
provides examples on how to perform various development
tasks.
As another example, the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_SDK_URL;'>Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK)</ulink>
manual contains detailed instructions on how to install an
SDK, which is used to develop applications for target
hardware.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<emphasis>Reference Material:</emphasis>
This type of material resides in an appropriate reference
manual.
For example, system variables are documented in the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;'>Yocto Project Reference Manual</ulink>.
As another example, the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BSP_URL;'>Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide</ulink>
contains reference information on BSPs.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<emphasis>Detailed Public Information Not Specific to the
Yocto Project:</emphasis>
For example, exhaustive information on how to use the
Source Control Manager Git is better covered with Internet
searches and official Git Documentation than through the
Yocto Project documentation.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
</section>
<section id='overview-manual-other-information'>
<title>Other Information</title>
<para>
Because this manual presents information for many different
topics, supplemental information is recommended for full
comprehension.
For additional introductory information on the Yocto Project, see
the <ulink url='&YOCTO_HOME_URL;'>Yocto Project Website</ulink>.
If you want to build an image with no knowledge of Yocto Project
as a way of quickly testing it out, see the
<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_BRIEF_URL;'>Yocto Project Quick Build</ulink>
document.
For a comprehensive list of links and other documentation, see the
"<ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#resources-links-and-related-documentation'>Links and Related Documentation</ulink>"
section in the Yocto Project Reference Manual.
</para>
</section>
</chapter>
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