Here is a list of resources you might find helpful:
The Yocto Project website: The home site for the Yocto Project.
The Yocto Project Main Wiki Page: The main wiki page for the Yocto Project. This page contains information about project planning, release engineering, QA & automation, a reference site map, and other resources related to the Yocto Project.
OpenEmbedded: The build system used by the Yocto Project. This project is the upstream, generic, embedded distribution from which the Yocto Project derives its build system (Poky) and to which it contributes.
BitBake: The tool used to process metadata.
BitBake User Manual: A comprehensive guide to the BitBake tool. If you want information on BitBake, see this manual.
Yocto Project Quick Start: This short document lets you get started with the Yocto Project and quickly begin building an image.
Yocto Project Development Tasks Manual: This manual is a "how-to" guide that presents procedures useful to both application and system developers who use the Yocto Project.
Yocto Project Application Development and the Extensible Software Development Kit (eSDK) manual: This guide provides information that lets you get going with the standard or extensible SDK. An SDK, with its cross-development toolchains, allows you to develop projects inside or outside of the Yocto Project environment.
Yocto Project Board Support Package (BSP) Developer's Guide: This guide defines the structure for BSP components. Having a commonly understood structure encourages standardization.
Yocto Project Linux Kernel Development Manual: This manual describes how to work with Linux Yocto kernels as well as provides a bit of conceptual information on the construction of the Yocto Linux kernel tree.
Yocto Project Profiling and Tracing Manual: This manual presents a set of common and generally useful tracing and profiling schemes along with their applications (as appropriate) to each tool.
Eclipse IDE Yocto Plug-in: Instructions that demonstrate how an application developer uses the Eclipse Yocto Project Plug-in feature within the Eclipse IDE.
FAQ: A list of commonly asked questions and their answers.
Release Notes: Features, updates and known issues for the current release of the Yocto Project.
Toaster User Manual: This manual introduces and describes how to set up and use Toaster. Toaster is an Application Programming Interface (API) and web-based interface to the OpenEmbedded Build System, which uses BitBake, that reports build information.
Bugzilla: The bug tracking application the Yocto Project uses. If you find problems with the Yocto Project, you should report them using this application.
Bugzilla Configuration and Bug Tracking Wiki Page: Information on how to get set up and use the Yocto Project implementation of Bugzilla for logging and tracking Yocto Project defects.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC):
Two IRC channels on freenode are available
for Yocto Project and Poky discussions: #yocto
and
#poky
, respectively.
Quick EMUlator (QEMU): An open-source machine emulator and virtualizer.