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The Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ featuring a 64-bit quad core processor running at 1.4 Ghz. R-Pi3 B+ supports the dual band 2.4GHz and 5GHz IEEE 802.11.b/g/n/ac wireless LAN which provides an high edge for the broadband developer community to test the RDK-B stack with Router, WiFi functionalities. 

Build Instructions

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Setting up the Host Environment

Pre-Requisites

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Free HDD Space

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Minimum 100GB Free Memory

Install the following packages for setting up your host VM

The instructions provided below are meant to be executed via the command line on an Ubuntu machine:

$         sudo apt-get   install     build-essential gettext bison libfile-slurp-perl gawk libncurses-dev autoconf flex doxygen libtool automake   libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev subversion minicom putty libssl-dev rpm python-pexpect python-svn python-argparse vim tofrodos meld dos2unix cmake uuid-dev ruby transfig libglib2.0-dev xutils-dev lynx-cur gperf autopoint   python-dulwich   python-dev curl vim diffstat texinfo chrpath   openjdk-7-jre

Configure bash as default command interpreter for shell scripts

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Select “No”
To choose bash, when the prompt asks if you want to use dash as the default system shell - select “No”

 Configure Git

Upgrade your Git version to 1.8.x or higher

On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, if you are unable to upgrade your git version using apt-get, then follow the below steps in order to upgrade  

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and Flashing Procedure 

• RDK-B Raspberrypi - Host SetUp and Build Instructions  

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  Once git is installed, configure your name and email using the below commands

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Repo setup

In order to install Repo make sure you have a /bin directory in your home directory and that it is included in your path

$ mkdir ~/bin
$ PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Download the repo tool and ensure that it is executable
$ curl http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ~/bin/repo
$ chmod a+x ~/bin/repo

Note: it is also recommended to put credentials in .netrc when interacting with repo.

A sample .netrc file is illustrated below

machine code.rdkcentral.com
login YOUR_USERNAME
password YOUR_PASSWORD

Yocto Build Steps

To build, follow below instructions

$ mkdir <workspace dir>
$ cd <workspace dir>
$ repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -b rdk-next -m rdkb-extsrc.xml
$ repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle
$ source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment (Select option raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.conf)
$ bitbake rdk-generic-broadband-image

Hardware and Setup Information

• RDKB RPI Setup Information 

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Note : RPI-3 B and B+ have same Build instructions and testing procedure

Flashing Procedure

Following command can be used to flash the RPI image to sd card using linux machine . dd tool should be available in linux

sudo dd if=<path to ImageName.rpi-sdimg> of=<path to SD card space> bs=4M
Example:
$ sudo dd if=rdk-generic-broadband-image-raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.rpi-sdimg of=/dev/sdb bs=4M

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RDK-B Bootup Sequence 

• GwProvApp-Ethwan is the entry point for RDK-B stack middleware. It does all gateway initialization as above
• Responsible to initiate the registration of all services on boot -up. Responsible for all provisioning of LAN,FIREWALL(iptables),BRIDGE,etc
• GwProvApp-EthWan is specifically designed for Ethernet only Input feed for WAN Network Connection(i,e erouter0)

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