Introduction - RDK Extender

Host Setup

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>

Please get patch(service.patch) for meta-turris layer from Plume to apply backhaul credential(SSID:PSK). Please check Cloud Access Guide for more details.


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

Patch: https://comcastcorp-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/r/personal/cpokur625_cable_comcast_com/Documents/opensyncpatch/0001-Update-bhaul-credential.patch?csf=1&web=1&e=GXY1k6

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.

OpenSync components

Branch

OpenSync Core component

osync_4.4.0

Platform-RDK

osync_4.4.0

RPI Vendor component

main


References:

Kirkstone build errors and its fixes in this link Kirkstone RDK-B RPI4 32-bit Extender User Manual

Validation test results and their corresponding fixes in this link Kirkstone RDK-B RPI4 32-bit Extender Validation

Jira Tickets :