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>

RPI4 Extender Kirkstone build(32-bit) instructions:

repo init -u https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/manifests -b rdkb-2024q2-kirkstone -m rdkb-pod-extsrc.xml
repo sync -j4 --no-clone-bundle
<UPDATE 0001-Update-bhaul-credential.patch in meta-cmf-broadband layer>
MACHINE=raspberrypi4-rdk-extender source meta-cmf-raspberrypi/setup-environment
bitbake rdk-generic-extender-image

• Reference (rdk-next build instruction): RPI 4B Model Reference Platform: Extender build instructions

Flashing Procedure

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

bzip2 -d <path to ImageName.wic.bz2>
sudo -E bmaptool copy --nobmap <path to ImageName.wic> <path to SD card space>

Example:

$ bzip2 -d rdk-generic-broadband-image-raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.wic.bz2
$ sudo -E bmaptool copy --nobmap rdk-generic-broadband-image-raspberrypi-rdk-broadband.wic.bz2 /dev/sdb

OpenSync version details:

Ported OpenSync version is 4.4.0.