Understand projects, platforms, objectives, and images

Before using image creator, you must understand the relationships between projects, targets, feature sets, and images.

Displays the relationships between projects, targets, and images.

Project
A project is a platform-specific building environment with one or more goals. When creating a project, image creator creates a complete Linux File System under the directory you specified. Changing the root directory to this directory will create an isolated environment where you can develop software for the device. This environment includes apt tools, so you can install the required toolkit. The project directory contains one or more targets in the/targets directory.

Platform
The platform is your target device. Select a platform when creating a project. This platform determines available kernels, system configurations, and device drivers, which are components of the Goals created in the project.

Target
The target is a platform-specific Linux File System, which is created in the/targets directory of the project. You can create an image from a target. Each project can have one or more targets. Before creating an image, you can change the root directory to this environment to configure the environment, or copy the application from your project.

Function set)
A feature set is a set of packages, indicating that the image creator can be installed in some functional areas of the target. A feature set may have dependencies of other feature sets. If the feature set to be installed depends on another feature set, the dependent feature set is automatically selected and first installed on the target.

Image
An image is a large file created from the target. You can specify the image name. Images can be copied to a device through USB, CD, or NAND.

More information
For more information about using image creator to create images for your mobile devices, see create images for your netbook