Yocto: bitbake build/populate sysroot

Yocto stops building the global sysroot (both native and cross) from version 2.6. To build any package yocto copies the sysroot as “recipes-sysroot” and “recipes-sysroot-native” into each WORKDIR. This stops the external application builders from using “tmp/sysroots/<MACHINE>” for cross compilation. To do the same way building external application using common sysroot and toolchain one need…

Bluetooth: List available controllers

This is the fist post in the series of blogs for Bluetooth in Linux. In this series we are going to cover mostly about Bluez and it’s provisions for Bluetooth functionality over DBUS (API’s in bluez/doc/). We will also cover few Bluetooth profiles like GAP, A2DP, AVRCP, PBAP in near future. Assumption: This series of…