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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 |
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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 Q3 | ||
Yocto 4.0 | Upgrading the Yocto build to the latest open-source components improves quality, security, performance, and maintainability. | P0 | Q4 | Q4 |
| 2024 Q4 | ||
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 | Q4 |
| 2024 Q4 | ||
| 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 Q2 | DAB Compliance Test Suite is required here. | ||
| Firebolt Native SDK | Firebolt Native SDK API integrations with Netflix Native application
| RDKVREL-147 | P0 | Q1 | NA | Premium Apps | 2024 Q4 | |
| Firebolt Apps (Lightning) | Standardizing ecosystems and pre-validation of Apps | P0 | 2024 Q4 | Firebolt Lightning apps will be ready by Q2 24, which is tracked as a separate program | ||||
| Memcr | App checkpoint/restore functionality - Memcr | RDKVREL-145 | P1 | Q1 | NA |
| 2024 Q3 | |
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 | ||
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 Q4 | |||
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 | |||
| Hardware porting kit | To standardize the HAL Layer Across RDK devices and provide a more advanced documentation | P1 | 2024 Q4 | |||||
| Update RDK Documentation | Update RDK Documentation including HAL for RDK7 | RDKVREL-160 | P1 | 2024 Q3 | ||||
| Reference app (Firebolt Based) | Reference implementation for Firebolt Spec based RDK UI, Performance improvement and improved customer experience for better scale. | P0 |
| 2024 Q4 | ||||
Amazon Prime AVPK6 | Amazon prime deployment | P0 | NA | NA |
| 2024 Q4 | ||
| Netflix 7* | Netflix Firebolt port | P0 |
| 2024 Q4 | ||||
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 | ||||
WiFi Direct - Miracast Compatible Screen Mirroring on RDK devices | Mirror audio and video from mobile/tablet/computer to WiFi set-top using WiFi Direct | P2 | 2024 Q4 | |||||
RDKE Vendor layer bring up |
| P0 | Q4 2024 | Amlogic, Broadcom Realtek STB reference devices RPI4. AMLogic TV (Beta) Skyworth VA (Beta) | 2024 Q4 | |||
RDKE middleware bringup | 2024 Q4 | |||||||
RDKE Applications layer bringup | 2025 Q1 | |||||||
RDKE Image Assembler Release | 2025 Q1 | |||||||
Firmware Upgrade |
| Done | Amlogic, Broadcom Realtek STB reference devices RPI4. AMLogic TV (Beta) | 2024 Q4 | ||||
Network Manager Integration | Amlogic, Broadcom Realtek STB reference devices RPI4. AMLogic TV (Beta) | 2024 Q4 | ||||||
Remote Control and Voice stack refactoring | Control manager component has undergone numerous changes including
| Amlogic, Broadcom Realtek STB reference devices RPI4. AMLogic TV (Beta) | 2024 Q4 | |||||
HAL updates | RDK HAL updates for new features | Amlogic, Broadcom Realtek STB reference devices RPI4. AMLogic TV (Beta) | 2025 Q1 |
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Containerization | Improvements in RDK build time container | RDKVREL-112 | P0 | 2024 Q2 | ||||
| AppArmor | Refactor AppArmor process with generic and platform specific code | P1 | 2024 Q2 | |||||
| Security | Kernel hardening | P1 | 2024 Q2 | |||||
| Rbus Enhancements | the unified message bus will simplify the communications and support in Ops tools to all, RDK-based devices. | P2 | 2024 Q2 | |||||
| EGL | Migrate to the new wayland-egl | RDKVREL-187 | P2 | 2024 Q3 | Broadcom SOC only | |||
| Package-manager support | Upgrade Thunder to support the new version of package manager | RDKVREL-189 | P2 | 2024 Q3 | ||||
| Secure Storage Thunder Plugin implementation on RDK | Enhancements to PersistentStore plugin to support Scope | P1 | 2024 Q3 | |||||
| AAMP | IP Video Low Latency DASH with TSB Support | RDKVREL-148 | P2 | 2024 Q3 | ||||
Window Manager Integration | Amlogic, Broadcom Realtek STB reference devices RPI4. AMLogic TV (Beta) | 2024 Q4 | ||||||
Application Manager Integration | Amlogic, Broadcom Realtek STB reference devices RPI4. AMLogic TV (Beta) | 2024 Q4 | ||||||
AAMP with RIALTO | Direct application access to hardware resources is prevented | P2 | Q1 | NA | 2024 Q2 |
RDK7 plan for certified devices - RDK7 Targeted platforms, Features, Beta Feature and POCs
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Suresh Sathiah
YouTube 25 : Risk involved
In order RDK to deliver YT25 by Q4, we need the SDK from Google by Q2 2024.
Aleeta Thomson
Upgrades from Google often occur in September-October. We can't expect it before Q3 and hence YT25 integration can only be completed by Q4.
Z-SHIBUTHOMAS
Unknown User (ajames) for Amazon Prime AVPK6, official code base is not released. Hence feature analysis shouldn't be completed. However, we understand from Mike(Amzon POC) that AVP6.0 has major changes. We can confirm the soc dependency by early Feb time. if there any SOC/Platform dependecies, then we need dedicated support from complete the certification in Q3 itself. SOC support need to be ensured. Is it targeting for both platform Amlogic and Realtek?
Ajith James
Yes Targeting both Realtek and Amlogic.
Z-SHIBUTHOMAS
Unknown User (ajames) targeting Netflix 7 for Q2 is goo optimistic. We have lot of dependencies with SOC team. Hence would be great if can target Netflix 7 for Q3. Also it is planned only for realtek platform as their is no support AML and Broadcom
Ajith James
Unknown User (shibuthomas) , thank you. I updated this to Q3.
Josekutty Kuriakose
We need to update lightning 3.0 schedule also.
Bart Catrysse
Unknown User (ajames) Key target of RDK-E that is already expected as part of RDK-7 delivery is that Premium Native Applications / AppEngines (Youtube, Netflix, WPEbrowser, Amazon, Disney+ ) are being ported as binary compatible firebolt-rialto-dac applications (including support for Firebolt Lifecycle2.0).
I am missing that in above feature description (and in general no mention of Rialto and DAC in table). Please add that and help facilitate towards delivering that, tagging Unknown User (bijal.shah3)