OSS + ELC EU 2026

Yocto is a complex and huge ecosystem. Getting started may feel hard, but there are various tools to make our daily development easier right out of the box—if you know about them. Unfortunately, many developers are only used to a small subset of the available tools and their capabilities, which often leads to writing additional custom tooling for already solved problems.
In this presentation, we will dive into a selection of these existing tools and demonstrate how to take advantage of them in everyday workflows. For example, we’ll discuss how `bitbake-getvar` helps with debugging variables and overrides, and how to find all packages generated by a recipe with `oe-pkgdata-util`. We will also look into `yocto-check-layer`, `patchtest`, `bitbake-config-help`, and more.
The session will focus on practical use cases, showing how to leverage already available tools to save time and reduce the need for custom scripts.