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+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
+"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
+[<!ENTITY % poky SYSTEM "../poky.ent"> %poky; ] >
+
+<book id='dev-manual' lang='en'
+      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
+      xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+      >
+    <bookinfo>
+
+        <mediaobject>
+            <imageobject>
+                <imagedata fileref='figures/dev-title.png'
+                    format='SVG'
+                    align='left' scalefit='1' width='100%'/>
+            </imageobject>
+        </mediaobject>
+
+        <title>
+            Yocto Project Development Manual
+        </title>
+
+        <authorgroup>
+            <author>
+                <firstname>Scott</firstname> <surname>Rifenbark</surname>
+                <affiliation>
+                    <orgname>Intel Corporation</orgname>
+                </affiliation>
+                <email>scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com</email>
+            </author>
+        </authorgroup>
+
+        <revhistory>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.1</revnumber>
+                <date>6 October 2011</date>
+                <revremark>The initial document released with the Yocto Project 1.1 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.2</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2012</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.2 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.3</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2012</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.3 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.4</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2013</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.4 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.5</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2013</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.5 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.5.1</revnumber>
+                <date>January 2014</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.5.1 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.6</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2014</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.6 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.7</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2014</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.7 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.8</revnumber>
+                <date>April 2015</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.8 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+            <revision>
+                <revnumber>1.9</revnumber>
+                <date>October 2015</date>
+                <revremark>Released with the Yocto Project 1.9 Release.</revremark>
+            </revision>
+        </revhistory>
+
+    <copyright>
+     <year>&COPYRIGHT_YEAR;</year>
+      <holder>Linux Foundation</holder>
+    </copyright>
+
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>
+          Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
+          the terms of the <ulink type="http" url="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/">
+          Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England &amp; Wales</ulink> as published by
+          Creative Commons.
+      </para>
+
+      <note>
+          For the latest version of this manual associated with this
+          Yocto Project release, see the
+          <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_DEV_URL;'>Yocto Project Development Manual</ulink>
+          from the Yocto Project website.
+      </note>
+    </legalnotice>
+
+    </bookinfo>
+
+    <xi:include href="dev-manual-intro.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="dev-manual-start.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="dev-manual-newbie.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="dev-manual-model.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="dev-manual-common-tasks.xml"/>
+
+    <xi:include href="dev-manual-qemu.xml"/>
+
+</book>
+<!--
+vim: expandtab tw=80 ts=4
+-->