QCOM Repo Manifest README

This git repository is used to download manifests for QCOM Linux Yocto BSP releases.

The branch will be based on the release type Linux with release manifests in each branch tied to the base releases.

For QCOM Linux Yocto BSP releases the manifest branches will be named as qcom-linux-[Yocto-Project-release], so qcom-linux-kirkstone with all manifests tied to releases on Kirkstone in this branch.

Below procedure assumes that you have gone through Qualcomm Linux | Qualcomm

If you are already having standard yocto environment, skip below prepare Host setup steps

Host Setup

The host machine needs a few setup operations to ensure the required software tools are ready

Install below packages to prepare your host environment for Yocto build

For ubuntu 22.04

sudo apt update
sudo apt install gawk wget git diffstat unzip texinfo gcc build-essential \
    chrpath socat cpio python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect xz-utils \
    debianutils iputils-ping python3-git python3-jinja2 libegl1-mesa \
    libsdl1.2-dev pylint xterm python3-subunit mesa-common-dev zstd \
    liblz4-tool locales tar python-is-python3 file libxml-opml-simplegen-perl \
    vim whiptail

Install the repo utility

To use this manifest repo, the repo tool must be installed first. To install repo, run these commands:

mkdir -p ~/bin
cd ~/bin
#Note if you already have a previous directory of repo_tool, you can delete it
rm -rf ~/bin/repo_tool
git clone https://android.googlesource.com/tools/repo.git -b v2.41 repo_tool
cd repo_tool
git checkout -b v2.41
export PATH=~/bin/repo_tool:$PATH

If your region is blocking access to android.googlesource, try the following configuration to fetch repo from Codelinaro mirror

git config --global url.https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/la/tools/repo.insteadOf https://android.googlesource.com/tools/repo

If the above method did not work you can try below commands for repo installation

Install curl if you haven't installed already

sudo apt install curl

Note: latest repo version works with python3

mkdir -p ~/bin
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GerritCodeReview/git-repo/v2.41/repo -o ~/bin/repo && chmod +x ~/bin/repo
export PATH=~/bin:$PATH

Set up locales if you haven't setup already, by using the following commands

sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Update git configurations

Check if your identity is configured in .gitconfig

git config --get user.email
git config --get user.name

Run the following commands if you do not have your account identity set in .gitconfig

git config --global user.email [email protected]
git config --global user.name "Your Name"

Add below UI color option for output of console

git config --global color.ui auto

Download the Yocto Project BSP

mkdir [release]
cd [release]
repo init -u https://github.com/quic-yocto/qcom-manifest -b [branch name] -m [release manifest]
repo sync

Each branch will have detailed READMEs describing exact syntax.

Example:

To download the qcom-6.6.28-QLI.1.1-Ver.1.1 release

repo init -u https://github.com/quic-yocto/qcom-manifest -b qcom-linux-kirkstone -m qcom-6.6.28-QLI.1.1-Ver.1.1.xml
repo sync

Setup the build folder for a BSP release

MACHINE=[machine] DISTRO=qcom-[backend] source setup-environment

[machine] defaults to qcm6490

[backend] Graphics backend type

• qcom-wayland meta-qcom-distro

Example for setup Wayland, machine qcm6490:

MACHINE=qcm6490 DISTRO=qcom-wayland source setup-environment

Note: Source to initialize bitbake environment

Build an image

bitbake [image recipe]

Some image recipes:

Image Name	Description
qcom-minimal-image	A minimal rootfs image that boots to shell.
qcom-console-image	Boot to shell with Package group to bring in all basic packages.
qcom-multimedia-image	Image recipe includes recipes for multimedia software components, such as, audio, bluetooth, camera, computer vision, display and video.
qcom-multimedia-test-image	This image recipe includes tests

Example command:

bitbake qcom-multimedia-image

To Include add-on layers, refer below README.md files

Mandatory layers:

1. Qualcomm Hardware Enablement

Optional layers:

1. Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia Product SDK
2. Realtime Linux
3. Qualcomm Intelligent Robotics Product SDK

Flash the image

To flash the generated build, see the Flash software

References

If you are new to the Yocto project, you may try your first build as documented in the Yocto project at Standard Yocto environment

The complete index of Yocto project docs is available at Yocto project docs