Introduction

This manual describes the rdk-generic-extender-image build procedure for Yocto 3.1 builds. Yocto 3.1 also contain Long term Support release feature. The upgraded build tools will be used to generate rdk-generic-extender-image for Raspberrypi reference platform. 

Host Setup

• For Host SetUp details refer this link - How to Build#SettinguptheHostEnvironment

NOTE: Observing fetch errors in VMs with Ubuntu14.x. Thus, suggesting to use VMs with Ubuntu16.x or higher.

Building

Note: Cloning the code before login once to code.rdkcentral.com, user would get the Authentication error, even though the account is in good standing and has all the required access. Please login to code.rdkcentral.com before attempting to clone.

To build, follow below instructions

Create workspace directory

mkdir <workspace dir>
cd <workspace dir>

Follow below instructions to create build with external sources

repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -b dunfell -m rdkb-pod-extsrc.xml
repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle
MACHINE=raspberrypi4-rdk-extender source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment
bitbake rdk-generic-extender-image

Else, follow below instructions to create build with no external source

repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -b dunfell -m rdkb-pod-nosrc.xml
repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle
MACHINE=raspberrypi4-rdk-extender source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment
bitbake rdk-generic-extender-image

Note. The build artifacts will be placed under <workspace dir>/build-*/tmp/deploy/images/raspberrypi*/ directory. Currently, it is in wic.bz2 format.

Hardwares