The x86-rt machine provides a platform for generic x86-64 hardware using a real time kernel.
Building Images
Follow the Setup and Building guide to set up the build environment and set the machine definition in local.conf to
MACHINE = "x86-rt"
The layer definition must be
BBLAYERS ?= " \
/home/ubuntu/yocto/poky/meta \
/home/ubuntu/yocto/poky/meta-poky \
/home/ubuntu/yocto/poky/meta-yocto-bsp \
\
/home/ubuntu/yocto/meta-openembedded/meta-oe \
/home/ubuntu/yocto/meta-ost/meta-ost \
"
Getting Images
Prebuilt images can be obtained from our Linux Images page. Extract it and flash it onto a USB stick.
Developing
Booting from the Images
The USB stick can now be used to boot from USB. Note that the BIOS/UEFI setting to achieve this are hardware specific.