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RDK7 Features
App Standardization | New Application Onboarding | Feature/Version Upgrades & Upstreaming Patches | Optimization |
|---|---|---|---|
Firebolt 2.0 Ripple Reference Implementation Life Cycle Management APIS Firebolt Native SDK DAC Applications DAB 2.0 | FB Apps MAX | Reference UI (Ripple Based) Amazon Prime AVPK6. (Low latency Player) YouTube Cobalt 24/25* (Evergreen) Yocto OE 4.0-(Kirkstone) Kernel - ACK 5.15 Graphics - EGL Thunder 4.4.1 Browser WPEWebkit 2.38 | Remove Qt from RDK Core Systemd thunder alignment. AAMP with RIALTO plugin App Manager Optimization |
RDK Architecture
RDK 2024 Committed features
| Feature | Business Requirements/why this feature is needed? | RDK Ticket | Priority | Comcast ETA | SoC/OEM/App Partner ETA | Targeted platforms | Targeted code changes in RDK-Next | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Build Standardization | RDK can control the number of components/packages installed in the image package. This also helps to validate the system performance and benchmark the new changes and SOC’s | P2 | NA | NA |
| 2024 Q2 | ||
| Lightning 3.0 | Lightning 3.0 release comes with a new set of feature upgrades including - New and improved font rendering, Batched rendering, dynamic shaders and Multi threading | NA | NA | 2024 Q2 | Standalone Release: The release is backward compatible with previous releases. | |||
| Patch Upstream | Upstream RDK Common patches | P2 | NA | NA |
| 2024 Q2 | ||
DAB 2.0 | YouTube requires DAB support for YT certification | P1 | Amazon Alexa Q1 |
| 2024 Q1 | |||
| Firebolt Native SDK | Firebolt Native SDK API integrations with Netflix Native application
| RDKVREL-147 | P0 | Q1 | NA | Premium Apps | 2024 Q1 | |
Yocto 4.0 | Upgrading the Yocto build to the latest open-source components improves quality, security, performance, and maintainability. | P0 | Q1 | Q2 |
| 2024 Q2 | ||
Android Common Kernel 5.15 | 1) The Android kernel is more popular and has more footprints compared to the Linux kernel, which leads to more support worldwide 2)SOC vendor supporting Android kernel doesn’t need to work to provide Linux kernel support to bring in RDK-V stack. | P0 | NA | Q2 |
| 2024 Q2 | ||
| Firebolt Apps (Lightning) | Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps | P0 | 2024 Q2 | Firebolt Lightning apps will be ready by Q2 24, which is tracked as a separate program | ||||
Remove QT from RDK Middleware | Create a clean build, Reduce maintenance costs, and improve the build time. Remove QT dependencies from BLE RCU Daemon so that RDK middleware can be built without QT. | P0 | Q1 | NA |
| 2024 Q2 | ||
AAMP with RIALTO | Direct application access to hardware resources is prevented | P2 | Q1 | NA | 2024 Q2 | |||
Thunder 4.4.1 | Thunder WPE Framework process to self-heal after any crash in the WPE Framework process which is triggered by an incoming JSON-RPC request to a plugin so that the system is able to continue working without any interruption | P0 | Q1(BCM) | NA | 2024 Q3 | |||
Firebolt 2.0 Reference Implementation (Ripple) Lifecycle management | Standardized Firebolt™ interfaces published, implemented, and certified for easy on-boarding of lightning applications | LCM - RDKVREL-188 | P0 | NA | 2024 Q3 | |||
Amazon Prime AVPK6 | Amazon prime deployment | P0 | NA | NA |
| 2024 Q3 | ||
HBO Max | HBO Max app deployment. | P0 | NA | NA |
| 2024 Q3 | ||
| Netflix 7* | Netflix Firebolt port | P0 |
| 2024 Q3 | ||||
| Update RDK Documentation | Update RDK Documentation including HAL for RDK7 | RDKVREL-160 | P1 | 2024 Q3 | ||||
YouTube 25 | Pre-certified Native apps for RDK global deployment. YouTube's requirement is to update their native player on the device every year. | P0 | NA | Pre release from Google (July) |
| 2024 Q4 | ||
TDK | RDK device and app certification | P0 | 2024 Q4 | Certified Annual RDK release |
RDK7 Nice to Have Features - Source code will be available, Platform integration and certification not committed
| Feature | Business Requirements/why this feature is needed? | RDK Ticket | Priority | Dependency | Targeted code changes in RDK-Next | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rbus Enhancements | the unified message bus will simplify the communications and support in Ops tools to all, RDK-based devices. | P2 | 2024 Q2 | |||
| Memcr | App checkpoint/restore functionality - Memcr | RDKVREL-145 | P1 | 2024 Q2 | ||
Bootup Services 1)Systemd thunder alignment 2)Bootup script optimization | Introduce a solution that will deliver consistent boot performance. Boot up performance improvements | P2 | 2024 Q2 | |||
| Optimize GFX Heap Usage | Runtime memory optimization | RDKVREL-151 | 2024 Q2 | |||
| AAMP | IP Video Low Latency DASH with TSB Support | RDKVREL-148 | P2 | 2024 Q2 | Stream not available | |
| EGL | Migrate to the new wayland-egl | RDKVREL-187 | P2 | 2024 Q3 | Broadcom SOC only | |
| Secure Storage Thunder Plugin implementation on RDK | nhancements to PersistentStore plugin to support Scope | P1 | 2024 Q3 | |||
| Upgrade Widevine to v18 | Best available content protection ensures the latest content available to customers, increasing customer acquisition and retention | P0 | 2024 Q3 | YT25 is not mandate Widevine 18 |
To be confirm
| Feature | Business Requirements/why this feature is needed? | RDK Ticket | Priority | Dependency | Targeted code changes in RDK-Next | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCDM Patch upstream | Upstream RDK OCDM patches | P1 | 2024 Q2 | |||
| Package-manager support | Upgrade Thunder to support the new version of package manager | RDKVREL-189 | P2 | 2024 Q2 | ||
| Firebolt Native SDK | Firebolt Native SDK API integrations with Netflix Native application
| RDKVREL-147 | P0 | 2024 Q2 | ||
| Reference app (Firebolt Based) | Reference implementation for Firebolt Spec based RDK UI, Performance improvement and improved customer experience for better scale. | P0 | 2024 Q3 | |||
| Hardware porting kit | To standardize the HAL Layer Across RDK devices and provide a more advanced documentation | P1 | 2024 Q3 | |||
| DAC with RIALTO | The native DAC apps are built with SoC platform agnostic DAC SDK into self sufficient oci images making them both build-able and runnable independent of platform system image/rootfs and aim to meet DAC contract for binary compatibility. | P1 | Reference feature for all native dac apps (Created feature tickets in individual native apps) We need to discuss the solution and create the EPIC. | |||
| Secure storage common hal implementation | Each RDK platform has to implement hal functioanlity utilizing the platform capabilities and the implementation must be compliant with the Security specification. | P1 | 2024 Q3 |
RDK7 plan for certified devices
Feature Implementation
| Platform | SoC / Model | Type | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amlogic | AH212 | Reference | |
| Amlogic | HX44X | VA(Skyworth) | |
| Amlogic TV | T5W | Reference | Sanity test only |
| Broadcom | BCM 72126 | Reference | |
| Realtek | RTD 1319 | Reference | |
| Raspberry pi | RPI4 | Reference |
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