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Raspberry Pi series are low cost credit card sized single board computers. The Raspberry Pi models feature a Broadcom SoC that includes an ARM CPU and an on chip graphics-processing unit (GPU). Raspberry Pi uses SD card that facilitates users to swap out different versions of the operating system or software updates, hence, speeding the development and testing process. This is a great way to develop new applications/software and show these to customers in remote locations or at trade shows.
The equipment listed below is required for complete functionality of the standalone environment. The only devices that are tested to work properly in this solution are the specific brands and models listed below. Support for other types of equipment is not available at this time.
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RPI 3B+
In order to install Repo make sure you have a /bin directory in your home directory and that it is included in your pat
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$ 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
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machine code.rdkcentral.com
login YOUR_USERNAME
password YOUR_PASSWORD |
For Repo setup refer below link.
How to Build#SettinguptheHostEnvironment
To build, follow below instructions
Build Steps
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Note : RPI-3 B and B+ have same Build instructions and testing procedure
Click on the green colour tick icon in the “GParted Partition Editor” tool to apply all the operations. After applying, the tool will display a single unallocated partition as below
Following command can be used to flash the RPI image to sd card using linux machine . dd tool should be available in linux
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https://www.balena.io/etcher/ can be used to flash RPI image in sd card using windows