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diff --git a/documentation/adt-manual/adt-intro.xml b/documentation/adt-manual/adt-intro.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 8740e5cf3e..0000000000 --- a/documentation/adt-manual/adt-intro.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,117 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN" -"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"> - -<chapter id='adt-intro'> - -<title>Application Development Toolkit (ADT) User's Guide</title> - -<para> - Welcome to the Application Development Toolkit User’s Guide. This manual provides - information that lets you get going with the ADT to develop projects using the Yocto - Project. -</para> - -<section id='book-intro'> - <title>Introducing the Application Development Toolkit (ADT)</title> - <para> - Fundamentally, the ADT consists of an architecture-specific cross-toolchain and - a matching sysroot that are both built by the Poky build system. - The toolchain and sysroot are based on a metadata configuration and extensions, - which allows you to cross develop for the target on the host machine. - </para> - <para> - Additionally, to provide an effective development platform, the Yocto Project - makes available and suggests other tools as part of the ADT. - These other tools include the Eclipse IDE Yocto Plug-in, an emulator (QEMU), - and various user-space tools that greatly enhance your development experience. - </para> - <para> - The resulting combination of the architecture-specific cross-toolchain and sysroot - along with these additional tools yields a custom-built, cross-development platform - for a user-targeted product. - </para> - - <section id='the-cross-toolchain'> - <title>The Cross-Toolchain</title> - <para> - The cross-toolchain consists of a cross-compiler, cross-linker, and cross-debugger - that are all generated through a Poky build that is based on your metadata - configuration or extension for your targeted device. - The cross-toolchain works with a matching target sysroot. - </para> - </section> - - <section id='sysroot'> - <title>Sysroot</title> - <para> - The matching target sysroot contains needed headers and libraries for generating - binaries that run on the target architecture. - The sysroot is based on the target root filesystem image that is built by - Poky and uses the same metadata configuration used to build the cross-toolchain. - </para> - </section> - - <section id='the-qemu-emulator'> - <title>The QEMU Emulator</title> - <para> - The QEMU emulator allows you to simulate your hardware while running your - application or image. - QEMU is installed several ways: as part of the Poky tree, ADT installation - through a toolchain tarball, or through the ADT Installer. - </para> - </section> - - <section id='user-space-tools'> - <title>User-Space Tools</title> - <para> - User-space tools are included as part of the distribution. - You will find these tools helpful during development. - The tools include LatencyTOP, PowerTOP, OProfile, Perf, SystemTap, and Lttng-ust. - These tools are common development tools for the Linux platform. - <itemizedlist> - <listitem><para><emphasis>LatencyTOP</emphasis> – LatencyTOP focuses on latency - that causes skips in audio, - stutters in your desktop experience, or situations that overload your server - even when you have plenty of CPU power left. - You can find out more about LatencyTOP at - <ulink url='http://www.latencytop.org/'></ulink>. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><emphasis>PowerTOP</emphasis> – Helps you determine what - software is using the most power. - You can find out more about PowerTOP at - <ulink url='http://www.linuxpowertop.org/'></ulink>. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><emphasis>OProfile</emphasis> – A system-wide profiler for Linux - systems that is capable - of profiling all running code at low overhead. - You can find out more about OProfile at - <ulink url='http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/about/'></ulink>. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><emphasis>Perf</emphasis> – Performance counters for Linux used - to keep track of certain - types of hardware and software events. - For more information on these types of counters see - <ulink url='https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php'></ulink> and click - on “Perf tools.” - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><emphasis>SystemTap</emphasis> – A free software infrastructure - that simplifies - information gathering about a running Linux system. - This information helps you diagnose performance or functional problems. - SystemTap is not available as a user-space tool through the Yocto Eclipse IDE Plug-in. - See <ulink url='http://sourceware.org/systemtap'></ulink> for more information - on SystemTap. - </para></listitem> - <listitem><para><emphasis>Lttng-ust</emphasis> – A User-space Tracer designed to - provide detailed information on user-space activity. - See <ulink url='http://lttng.org/ust'></ulink> for more information on Lttng-ust. - </para></listitem> - </itemizedlist> - </para> - </section> -</section> - -</chapter> -<!-- -vim: expandtab tw=80 ts=4 ---> |