Release Notes - 2020 - M7
RDK Reference Platform (RFP)


Version: 1.5
31th July 2020


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Revision History

Release No.

Date

Revision Description

1.0

02 Mar 2020

Updated Release Information , Release Identification for 2020 M2 Release

Updated Features supported for this sprint and Community tickets addressed

1.1

31 Mar 2020

Updated Release Information , Release Identification for 2020 M3 Release

Updated Features supported for this sprint and Community tickets addressed

Updated Known Issues and Limitations for

1.230 April 2020

Updated Release Information , Release Identification for 2020 M4 Release

Updated Features supported for this sprint and Community tickets addressed

1.329 May 2020

Updated Release Information, Release Identification for 2020 M5 Release

Updated Features supported for this sprint and Community tickets addressed

  • vc4graphics and v4l2 enabled for RDK Hybrid Thunder image on RPI platform to resolve MPEG TS streams playback issue - REFPLTV-433
  • RDK Generic Hybrid image support on RPI platform from yocto 3.1 manifest - REFPLTV-473
  • RDK Generic Mediaclient image support on RPI platform from yocto 3.1 fixing Issues - REFPLTV-474
  • Yocto - 3.1 support in Turris Omnia Target - RDK Broadband generic gateway image - REFPLTB-566
  • Implementated the hal-dhcpv4c api's for successfully fetching of Device.DHCPv4.Client.{i} data model tree - REFPLTB-635
  • Supported Firmware Upgrade with XConf server for RDK-C - REFPLTCAM-21
1.430 Jun 2020

Updated Release Information, Release Identification for 2020 M6 Release

Updated Features supported for this sprint and Community tickets addressed

  • Firmware upgrade through XCONF server in Turris Omnia Platform - REFPLTB-665
  • Added RDKM logo support in UI page and corresponding syndication DM parameters also updated with respect to emulator - REFPLTB-623
  • Added Firmware Upgrade with http protocol support in rpi platform - REFPLTB-659
  • Supported Normal Thumbnail feature for RPI-0 Device - REFPLTCAM-15
  • Validation and fixes for various runtime/build time failures for rdk-generic-mediaclient-image - REFPLTV-474
1.531 July 2020

Updated Release Information, Release Identification for 2020 M7 Release

Updated Features supported for this sprint and Community tickets addressed

  • Integarted SNMP module in RDKB stack in RPI - REFPLTB-714
  • RDKB Emulator hal refactoring - REFPLTB-758
  • Online / Offline status of connected devices on RDKB  in R-Pi - REFPLTB-622
  • Fixed high priority run-time/build time issues: Yocto 3.1 RDK MediaClient Generic Image - REFPLTV-474
  • Validation and fixes for runtime issues for Yocto 3.1 RDK Hybrid Generic image - REFPLTV-473
  • Integrate yocto3.1 for rdk-generic-camera-image - REFPLTCAM-31
  • Yocto 3.1 dunfell RDKB build for Turris Omnia: Brought all RDKB feature that are available in rdk-next build - REFPLTB-566
  • Git tagged release build(rdk-next) for Turris omnia - REFPLTB-680


Contents


Introduction


This Release Notes document details on the delivery version 2020 M7 for the RDK Reference Platform to the RDK Community

  1. Release Feature Information
  2. Software and Hardware requirements to build
  3. Known limitations
  4. Updated Platform Tickets

Release Information


Below are the list of release features supporting Turris Omnia, R-Pi and Emulator platforms.


S.NoFeatureDeviceProfileRemarksTickets
1Yocto 3.1 Image Stabilization and ValidationTurris Omnia   RDKB
  • Validating the features of RDKB for 3.1 image on Turris Omnia.
  • Fixed the issues with inet6 addr, ccsp-wifi-agent, webui ,and captive-portal.
  • Enabled the features such as webPA and Firmware-upgrade.
  • Resolved the build failures, and ensured the smooth build.

REFPLTB-566

Sub Tasks:

REFPLTB-737

REFPLTB-738

REFPLTB-739

REFPLTB-740

REFPLTB-741

REFPLTB-765

REFPLTB-766

  2RDKB Emulator hal re-factoring      Emu   RDKB

Currently, we are hosting the Emulator hal source code in generic hal repo( i,e rdkb/components/opensource/ccsp/hal under the source-pc folder. So, it doesn't cause any impact on other targets). Getting the changes at rdk-next branch takes around 2 to 3 weeks after round tripping the comcast sprint, stable2 branches (Which is not ideally needed because the changes are in emulator HAL specific in source-pc)
So, hosting the repo in CMF will save the time to greater extend.

  • Added the updated RDKB emu hal source code in new repo
  • Updated all the hal bbappend 's in bsp-emulator layer
  • Removed the unwanted folders and moved all the remaining hal folders to source folder

REFPLTB-758

Sub Tasks:

CMFSUPPORT-83

REFPLTB-759

REFPLTB-767

REFPLTB-768


   3

Integrated SNMP module support in rpi platform

      R-PI   RDKB
  • SNMP Protocol Agent (PA) provides the solution for SNMP Protocol to access CCSP Data Model.
  • Externally, SNMP protocol agent works like a regular SNMP agent. It takes coming SNMP requests and sends back the corresponding results or errors.
  • Internally, SNMP protocol agent processes the SNMP requests and translates those into CCSP Messages. Those messages go on to CCSP Message Bus and come back with response messages. SNMP protocol agent processes the response messages and response to SNMP requests accordingly.
  • In order to translate between SNMP requests and CCSP Messages, SNMP protocol agent loads the XML files describing how MIB objects are mapped to Data Model objects.


REFPLTB-715

Related tickets

REFPLTB-714

REFPLTB-752

    4Online / Offline status of connected devices on RDKB     R-Pi   RDK-B
  • In WebUI, connected Device > Devices > Connected clients status need to be updated properly.
  • If any new associated clients connected with our Gateway Device,that client information should be properly updated in WebUI under online status.
  • If any connected clients disconnects from our Gateway Device, that clients information's should be properly updated in WebUI under Offline status
  • For that, we have implemented the below api's,
  • update_wifi_inactive_AssociatedDeviceInfo()
  • wifi_getApInactiveAssociatedDeviceDiagnosticResult()
  • CosaDMLWiFi_Send_FullHostDetails_To_LMLite()
              REFPLTB-622
5Fixing run time/build time issues: Yocto 3.1 rdk-generic-mediaclient-imageR-PiRDKV
  • Fixes for aamp-cli and rdkmediaplayer playback issue caused by version changes in gstreamer1.0-libav
  • Fixes for irmgr service crash due to a non-void function
  • Temporary fixes for netsrvmgr and tr69hostif services due to -Os optimization
  • Major functional validation and runtime issues fixed on RDK MediaClient Generic image generated from Yocto 3.1
  • Validation and runtime issues fixed on RDK Hybrid Generic image generated from Yocto 3.1

REFPLTV-500

REFPLTV-511

REFPLTV-499

REFPLTV-474

REFPLTV-473

6

Integrate yocto3.1 for rdk-generic-camera-image

R-Pi RDKC
  • Integrated yocto 3.1 for rdk-generic-camera-image
  • Validated  the below features in Yocto-3.1 Image
    • RDKC Media Streamer(RMS)
    • Normal thumbnail 
REFPLTCAM-31
7Community Tickets R-Pi, Turris Omnia and EmulatorRDKB
  • RPI login page after bootup or factory reset looks broken
  • [TDK][AUTO][RPI] Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_Syndication.RDKB_UIBranding.CloudUI.link giving empty value in recent rpi images
  • [TDK][AUTO][EMU]Device.WiFi.AccessPoint.i.Status & Device.WiFi.AccessPoint.i.Alias returning empty values
  • [TDK][AUTO][EMU]Webpa and Parodus processes are killed on Webpa SET of certain LogAgent Parameters
  • [TDK][AUTO]Unable to set and get the TR-181 parameter Device.WiFi.X_CISCO_COM_FactoryResetRadioAndAp
  • Ports(80,443,9000) are accepted in firewall without any service running in raspberry pi plaform
  • [TDK][AUTO] Connectivity test with default destination address "www.rdkcentral.com" fails with error "Inactive Error_Other"
  • [TDK] [AUTO][RPI] On Enabling BlockFragIPPkts ,IPFloodDetect,PortScanProtect via TR-181 IPv4 parameter its corresponding iptables rules are not added into iptables
  • [TDK][AUTO][RPI] System date in RPI is not showing correctly
  • snmpwalk request fails
  • Connectivity test with default destination address "www.rdkcentral.com" fails with error "Inactive Error_Other" in Emulator.
  • Device.DeviceInfo.X_RDKCENTRAL-COM_Syndication.RDKB_UIBranding.Footer.CustomerCentralLink gives empty values in Emu

  • Initial wifi connection failure issue on both 2.4 and 5 Ghz

  • [Turris Omnia] WiFi Radio Status is down when WiFi Radio Enable is reset to TRUE
  • erouter0 not getting IP address from external upstream DHCP server
  • WebUI is not accessible over erouter0 IP
  • Corrections in systemd service files
  • Add ethtool package in broadband image
  • Update setup-environment to update auto.conf for tagged build
  • Remove RPI specific implementation
  • Create files for tracking AssocitedDevices
  • Create Manifest file for tagged build for Jul2020
  • Test&Diagnostic: Ping is not working in rdk-next (RDKB) build for Turris omnia target
  • Access WebUI through brlan0 interface
  • Set ccsp-arch=arm for needed ccsp components
  • Fix CcspPandMSsp crash


REFPLTB-501

REFPLTB-552


REFPLTB-577

REFPLTB-619

REFPLTB-660


REFPLTB-712


REFPLTB-728

REFPLTB-732

REFPLTB-746

REFPLTB-752

REFPLTB-761


REFPLTB-771


REFPLTB-775

REFPLTB-723

REFPLTB-747

REFPLTB-748

REFPLTB-755

REFPLTB-756

REFPLTB-762

REFPLTB-763

REFPLTB-764

REFPLTB-769

REFPLTB-770

REFPLTB-773

REFPLTB-776

REFPLTB-777

8Community TicketsR-Pi RDKV
  • [TDK] [RPI] IARMBus Call to GetXUPNPDeviceInfo return null info for all the parameters
  • Emulator E2E and MF scripts are getting timed out.
  • RPI-V AAMP Playback via rdkmediaplayer is broken.
  • [THUNDER] Raspberry PI got hang/crashed during storm tests execution
  • [TDK] Rdk-next - RPI Hybrid and Media Client latest builds are failing

REFPLTV-478

REFPLTV-435

REFPLTV-488

REFPLTV-509

REFPLTV-510

Hardware and Software Requirements

Supported software and hardware

  • Preferred 2.4GHZ WIFI adapter for Emulator: Tenda 150Mbps Wireless PICO USB Adapter with RT5370 chipset (W311MI) (or)
    Preferred 2.4GHZ WIFI adapter for Emulator:  TP-Link AC1200 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter (Archer T4U)
  • Preferred 5GHZ WIFI adapter for Emulator/RPI:  TP-Link AC1200 Wireless Dual Band USB Adapter (Archer T4U)
  • Preferred xfinity-wifi 2.4GHZ WIFI adapter for RPI:  TP-LINK TL-WN823N 300Mbps Mini Wireless N USB Adapter
  • New dongle - Ultra-fast 1300 (867+400) mbps wireless speed with 802.11ac
  • Turris Omnia Target for Wi-Fi Extender functionality
  • USB to Ethernet
  • Desktop PCs
  • 8 GB SD-Card

Known Issues and Limitations

Yocto-3.1 RDK generic media client image support in R-Pi:

  1. PREFERRED_VERSION of gstreamer1.0-libav is set to 1.14 to resolve aamp playback issues.
  2. The optimization level for netsrvmgr and tr69hostif packages are set to -O0 to fix the crash.
  3. mfrmgr.service is crashing for the latest build
  4. The triangle rendered by westeros_test app is distorted.
  5. rdkmediaplayer works with VID3 only.
  6. appmanager is getting displayed after booting up the image but the login prompt is not available in the background as usual.
  7. rmfApp prompt is not getting displayed after playing video using launch/play command. So we need to hard close the video using Ctrl + C combination.
  8. Sometimes the appmanager disappear from the screen after sometime. We can bring it back by pressing ctrl button.
  9. The fingerprint-dhcp-lease-file.patch is failing for dnsmasq_2.81 version due to code changes in lease.c file hence excluded the patch until the patch is verified.

Yocto-3.1 RDK Generic Hybrid Image on RPI:

  1. RMF App prompt is not getting displayed after playing video using launch/play command

Yocto-3.1 RDK Generic Camera Image in R-PI:

  1.  Ethernet connection ( USB Ethernet Adapter):
    •  Able to get 'Ethernet IP' but unable to ping any address like www.google.com due to this issue not able to validate RMS feature.
  2.  WiFi connection:
    •  After bootup unable to get the 'WiFi IP' address by default.
    • Once we restart the " wpa_supplicant.service" forcefully then we can able to get the 'WiFi IP'.
  3.  RDKC Media Streamer( RMS )
    • After bootup, RMS services are not running.
    • Everytime manually we need to run this  " rms-launcher.service" command to launch rms.

Yocto-3.1 RDK Generic Broadband Image in Turris-Omnia:

   For WebPA Support,

   In the below Get/Set parameters, able to set the value successfully, but retrieving the same 'value' set is failing. Wifi-HAL need to be updated in yocto_3.1 for this issue. 

  • Device.Users.User.1.X_CISCO_COM_Password
  • Device.WiFi.Radio.10000.Channel

Project Documentation

Below are the list of supporting documents that are part of release


1High Level DesignAn high level design document which explains the design flow of each and every feature also covers Design Considerations, Architecture, Data Model, Limitations and Future Enhancements
2User ManualThe user manual consists of a procedure to test the particular feature also covers Environment setup, Executing the System and Troubleshooting steps
3System Test Plan Results

This document contains multiple test cases and test results which are captured after test execution

4Release NotesRelease Notes -This document


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