R-Car/Boards/Yocto-Gen3/v2.12.0

This page contains information on building and running Yocto on:
 * Renesas R-Car-H3/M3 Salvator-X.View - R-Car SalvatorX with Maxim Integrated GMSL camera board
 * Renesas R-Car-H3 Starter Kit Premier (unofficial name - H3ULCB), see https://www.renesas.com/en-us/solutions/automotive/adas/solution-kits/r-car-starter-kit.html
 * ADAS View Solution Kit (unofficial name - H3ULCB.View), see details here: https://www.renesas.com/en-us/solutions/automotive/adas/solution-kits/adas-view-solution-kit.html
 * HAD Solution Kit (unofficial name - H3 H3ULCB.HAD), see https://www.renesas.com/en-us/solutions/automotive/adas/solution-kits/had-solution-kit.html
 * Renesas R-Car-M3 Starter Kit Pro (unofficial name - M3ULCB) https://www.renesas.com/en-us/solutions/automotive/adas/solution-kits/r-car-starter-kit.html
 * Renesas R-Car-M3 M3ULCB.View boards.

NOTE: USE OFFICIAL DOCUMENTATION provided with R-Car BSPs FOR Salvator-X boards

Yocto versions
Poky-2.0.2 is supported. Specific commit of meta-openembedded is required.

Preliminary steps
 Download evaluation version of proprietary graphics and multimedia drivers from Renesas. To download Multimedia and Graphics library and related Linux drivers, please use the following link: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/solutions/automotive/rcar-download/rcar-demoboard.html Graphic drivers are required for Wayland. Multimedia drivers are optional. 
 * Download two files
 * R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_for_Linux-20160906.tar.gz
 * R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_of_Linux_Drivers-20160906.tar.gz

 Install required packages

Ubuntu and Debian
sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \ build-essential chrpath socat libsdl1.2-dev xterm python-crypto

Fedora
sudo yum install gawk make wget tar bzip2 gzip python unzip perl patch \ diffutils diffstat git cpp gcc gcc-c++ glibc-devel texinfo chrpath \ ccache perl-Data-Dumper perl-Text-ParseWords perl-Thread-Queue socat \ SDL-devel xterm Refer to Yocto Project Quick Start for more information.  

Building the BSP for Renesas Salvator-X.View H3/M3, H3ULCB, H3ULCB.View, H3ULCB.HAD, M3ULCB, M3ULCB.View
 Create a directory and switch to it Warning! Yocto builds require a lot of disk space (up to 100 GB). Make sure you have got enough before starting the build. mkdir build cd build export WORK=`pwd`  Clone basic Yocto layers: cd $WORK git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky git clone git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded git clone git://git.linaro.org/openembedded/meta-linaro.git 

 Switch to proper branches/commits cd $WORK/poky git checkout -b tmp 40376446904ae3529be41737fed9a0b650ed167d cd $WORK/meta-openembedded git checkout -b tmp 8ab04afbffb4bc5184cfe0655049de6f44269990 cd $WORK/meta-linaro git checkout -b tmp 9b1fd178309544dff1f7453e796a9437125bc0d9 Another versions are not tested for compatibility. 

 Clone Renesas BSP layer and switch to the proper branch: cd $WORK git clone git://github.com/CogentEmbedded/meta-rcar.git meta-renesas -b v2.12.0 NOTE: meta-rcar.git is a fork of official Renesas git https://github.com/renesas-rcar/meta-renesas with ADAS View and HAD Solution kits supported. 

 Apply Linaro-GCC patch file: cd $WORK/meta-renesas export PATCH_DIR=meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/patch/patch-for-linaro-gcc patch -p1 < ${PATCH_DIR}/0001-rcar-gen3-add-readme-for-building-with-Linaro-Gcc.patch unset PATCH_DIR </li>  Unzip downloaded proprietary driver modules to $WORK/proprietary folder. You should see the following files: $ ls -1 $WORK/proprietary R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_for_Linux-20160906.tar.gz R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_of_Linux_Drivers-20160906.tar.gz </li>

 Populate meta-renesas with proprietary software packages. export PKGS_DIR=$WORK/proprietary cd $WORK/meta-renesas sh meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/copyscript/copy_evaproprietary_softwares.sh -f $PKGS_DIR unset PKGS_DIR </li>

 Setup build environment cd $WORK source poky/oe-init-build-env </li>

 Prepare default configuration files. cp $WORK/meta-renesas/meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/conf/<salvator-x|h3ulcb|m3ulcb>/linaro-gcc/mmp/*.conf ./conf/ cd $WORK/build cp conf/local-wayland.conf conf/local.conf

 Edit $WORK/build/conf/local.conf to enable/disable graphics and multimedia proprietary drivers support </li>

 Edit local.conf to choose machine extension variant </li>

For H3ULCB board only:

  Edit local.conf to select IO configuration (by default only H3ULCB board peripherals are enabled): MACHINE_FEATURES_append = " h3ulcb-view" (use this append for View IO configuration) or MACHINE_FEATURES_append = " h3ulcb-had" (use this append for HAD IO configuration) or MACHINE_FEATURES_append = " ulcb-kf" (use this append for Kingfisher IO configuration) </li> </ol>

For Salvator-X board only:

  Edit local.conf to select IO configuration (by default only Salvator-X board peripherals are enabled): MACHINE_FEATURES_append = " salvator-x-view" (use this append for View IO configuration) SOC_FAMILY = "r8a7796" (make this change only for M3 Salvator-X, since the default is H3 Salvator-X) </li> </ol>

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For M3ULCB board only:

  Edit local.conf to select IO configuration (by default only M3ULCB board peripherals are enabled): MACHINE_FEATURES_append = " m3ulcb-view" (use this append for View IO configuration) or MACHINE_FEATURES_append = " ulcb-kf" (use this append for Kingfisher IO configuration) </li> </ol>

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 Edit local.conf with evaluation packages requirements: DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " use_eva_pkg" </li>

 Start the build

bitbake core-image-weston </li>

 Building image can take upto a few hours depending on your host system performance. After the build has been completed successfuly, you should see the output similar to: NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 4704 tasks of which 31 didn't need to be rerun and all succeeded. and the command prompt should return. </li>

 Bitbake has generated all the necessary files in ./tmp/deploy/images directory. You can verify its content: $ ls -1 `find ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/ -maxdepth 1 -type l -print` ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/core-image-weston-h3ulcb.cpio.gz ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/core-image-weston-h3ulcb.ext4 ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/core-image-weston-h3ulcb.manifest ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/core-image-weston-h3ulcb.tar.bz2 ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-h3ulcb.bin ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb-had.dtb ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb-kf-v1.dtb ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb-kf.dtb ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb-view.dtb ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/modules-h3ulcb.tgz ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/u-boot.bin ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/u-boot-elf-h3ulcb.srec ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/u-boot-elf.srec ./tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/u-boot-h3ulcb.bin Image is a Kernel image, *.dtb is a blob file, core-image-weston-h3ulcb.tar.bz2 is the rootfs, modules-h3ulcb.tgz are kernel modules. </li> <li> You can now proceed with running Yocto images </li> </ol>

Running Yocto images
Linux kernel can be booted from microSD card or from TFTP. Root FS can be mounted from micro SD card or via NFS.

Loading kernel via TFTP and rootfs via NFS
Follow these steps to setup working TFTP and NFS server: <ol> <li> Setup a TFTP server.

Ubuntu
Install tftpd-hpa package along with tftp tools: sudo apt-get install tftp tftpd-hpa

Fedora
<ol> <li> Install necessary packages: sudo yum install tftp-server tftp tftp-server is a part of xinetd. See Fedora manual for more information. </li> <li> Enable TFTP server: sudo vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp Set disable = no Save file and exit. </li> <li> Start xinetd: sudo systemctl start xinetd.service sudo systemctl enable xinetd.service </li> </ol>

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<li> Copy Image and Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb from $WORK/build/tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/ to TFTP server root.

Ubuntu
cp $WORK/build/tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image /srv/tftp/ cp $WORK/build/tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb /srv/tftp/

Fedora
cp $WORK/build/tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image /var/lib/tftpboot/ cp $WORK/build/tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb /var/lib/tftpboot/ </li>

<li> Verify that TFTP server is working. tftp localhost -c get Image && ls Image </li>

<li> Setup NFS server.

Debian/Ubuntu
<ol> <li> Install necessary packages: sudo apt-get install nfs-kernel-server nfs-common </li> <li> Start NFS server: sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start </li> </ol>

Fedora
<ol> <li> Install necessary packages: sudo yum install nfs-utils </li> <li> Enable and start nfs server: sudo systemctl enable rpcbind.service sudo systemctl enable nfs-server.service sudo systemctl enable nfs-lock.service sudo systemctl enable nfs-idmap.service sudo systemctl start rpcbind.service sudo systemctl start nfs-server.service sudo systemctl start nfs-lock.service sudo systemctl start nfs-idmap.service </li> </ol> </li>

<li> Export root FS to NFS. (Change IMAGE and MACHINE to fit your build). <ol> <li> Unpack rootfs to a dedicated directory: IMAGE=weston MACHINE=salvator-x|h3ulcb|m3ulcb NFS_ROOT=/nfs/${MACHINE} sudo mkdir -p "${NFS_ROOT}" sudo rm -rf "${NFS_ROOT}"/* sudo tar -xjf "${WORK}/build/tmp/deploy/images/${MACHINE}/core-image-${IMAGE}-${MACHINE}-*.tar.bz2" -C "${NFS_ROOT}" sync </li> <li> Edit /etc/exports: sudo vi /etc/exports add /nfs/h3ulcb	*(rw,no_subtree_check,sync,no_root_squash,no_all_squash) /nfs/salvator-x	*(rw,no_subtree_check,sync,no_root_squash,no_all_squash) Save the file and exit. </li> <li> Force NFS server to re-read /etc/exports sudo exportfs -a </li> </ol> </li> <li> Verify that NFS is working. [builduser@buildmachine ~]$ showmount -e localhost Export list for localhost: /nfs/h3ulcb * /nfs/salvator-x * </li>

<li> Boot into U-Boot command prompt

<ol> <li> Connect to serial console over microUSB using minicom or picocom. </li> <li> Switch the board on or reset it. Press any key to stop U-Boot automatic countdown. </li> </ol> Refer to H3SK board page, M3SK board page, Salvator-X board page for more information. </li>

<li> Configure Ethernet, TFTP, and kernel command line in U-Boot:

setenv ipaddr <board-ip> setenv serverip <your-computer-ip> setenv bootcmd 'tftp 0x48080000 Image; tftp 0x48000000 Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb; booti 0x48080000 - 0x48000000' setenv bootargs 'ignore_loglevel rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=<your-computer-ip>:<nfs-path>,nfsvers=3 ip=<board-ip>:<your-computer-ip>::255.255.255.0:h3ulcb' saveenv Replace <board-ip> with the proper IP address for the board. Replace <your-computer-ip> with the IP address of your computer, where tftp and nfs servers are installed. Replace <nfs-path> with the exported path of the root FS. For example: setenv ipaddr 192.168.1.3 setenv serverip 192.168.1.2 setenv bootcmd 'tftp 0x48080000 Image; tftp 0x48000000 Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb; booti 0x48080000 - 0x48000000' setenv bootargs 'ignore_loglevel rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.2:/nfs/h3ulcb,nfsvers=3 ip=192.168.1.3:192.168.1.2::255.255.255.0:h3ulcb' saveenv You can also use dhcp command to obtain information from DHCP server. Note: You can always see the environment with printenv command. Refer to U-Boot manual for details. </li>

<li> Verify the connection over Ethernet from U-Boot: ping <your-computer-ip> You should see: => ping 192.168.1.2 ravb:0 is connected to ravb. Reconnecting to ravb ravb Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete.. done ravb: 100Base/Full Using ravb device host 192.168.1.2 is alive </li>

<li> Reset the board by pushing reset button Refer to H3SK board page, M3SK board page, Salvator-X board page for more information. </li>

<li> The board should boot the kernel: NOTICE: BL2: R-Car Gen3 Initial Program Loader(CA57) Rev.1.0.10 NOTICE: BL2: PRR is R-Car H3 ES1.0 NOTICE: BL2: Boot device is HyperFlash(80MHz) NOTICE: BL2: LCM state is CM NOTICE:  BL2: AVS setting succeeded. DVFS_SetVID=0x52 NOTICE: BL2: DDR1600(rev.0.10) NOTICE: BL2: DRAM Split is 4ch NOTICE: BL2: QoS is default setting(rev.0.32) NOTICE: BL2: Lossy Decomp areas NOTICE:      Entry 0: DCMPAREACRAx:0x80000540 DCMPAREACRBx:0x570 NOTICE:      Entry 1: DCMPAREACRAx:0x40000000 DCMPAREACRBx:0x0 NOTICE:      Entry 2: DCMPAREACRAx:0x20000000 DCMPAREACRBx:0x0 NOTICE: BL2: v1.1(release):c2f9fc9 NOTICE: BL2: Built : 00:36:25, Nov 20 2016 NOTICE: BL2: Normal boot NOTICE: BL2: dst=0xe631a1a8 src=0x8180000 len=512(0x200) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x43f00000 src=0x8180400 len=6144(0x1800) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x44000000 src=0x81c0000 len=65536(0x10000) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x44100000 src=0x8200000 len=524288(0x80000) NOTICE: BL2: dst=0x50000000 src=0x8640000 len=1048576(0x100000)

U-Boot 2015.04 (Nov 20 2016 - 00:54:11)

CPU: Renesas Electronics R8A7795 rev 1.0 Board: H3ULCB I2C:  ready DRAM: 3.9 GiB MMC:  sh-sdhi: 0, sh-sdhi: 1 In:   serial Out:  serial Err:  serial Net:  ravb Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 ravb Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete.. done ravb: 100Base/Full BOOTP broadcast 1 BOOTP broadcast 2 BOOTP broadcast 3 DHCP client bound to address 192.166.10.31 (1287 ms) Using ravb device TFTP from server 192.166.10.1; our IP address is 192.166.10.31 Filename 'Image'. Load address: 0x48080000 Loading: ################################################################# #################################################################        #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         #################################################################         ####################################################         627 KiB/s done Bytes transferred = 13905920 (d43000 hex) ravb:0 is connected to ravb. Reconnecting to ravb ravb Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete. done ravb: 100Base/Full Using ravb device TFTP from server 192.166.10.1; our IP address is 192.166.10.31 Filename 'Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb'. Load address: 0x48000000 Loading: ############# 12.7 KiB/s done Bytes transferred = 66470 (103a6 hex) Booting using the fdt blob at 0x48000000 Using Device Tree in place at 0000000048000000, end 00000000480133a5
 * 1) Flattened Device Tree blob at 48000000

Starting kernel ...                                                                                                                        </li> </ol>

How to prepare and boot from eMMC/SD card
This section describes steps that are necessary for preparing and booting from SD card.

Preparing eMMC/SD card
In order to prepare you SD card, follow these instructions on host machine:

1. Partion your SD card to set 1 partition and ID=83 (Linux) Make sure the SD card doesn't contain any important files. WARNING! These steps may erase the SD card completely. All files my be lost.

$ fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 -> d -> n -> p -> 1 -> t -> 83

2. Format this partition to ext3 (or ext4)

$ mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1

3. Mount this partition on your host to any directory and upack the core-image-weston-*.tar.bz2 into mounted folder.

$ mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt $ cd <your_yocto_build_directory> $ tar xfj build/tmp/deploy/images/h3ulcb/core-image-weston-h3ulcb-*.rootfs.tar.bz2  -C /mnt

NOTE: probably you need to be a root user, hence use "sudo"

Configure U-Boot to boot from SD card
Proper U-Boot command to boot from SD:
 * 1) setenv bootargs 'rw root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootfstype=ext3 rootwait'
 * 2) ext2load mmc 0:1 0x48080000 /boot/Image
 * 3) ext2load mmc 0:1 0x48000000 /boot/Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb
 * 4) booti 0x48080000 - 0x48000000'

Example of U-Boot environment variables: baudrate=115200 bootargs_emmc=rw root=/dev/mmcblk0p1 rootfstype=ext3 rootwait bootargs_nfs=rw root=/dev/nfs rootwait ip=dhcp bootargs_sd0=rw root=/dev/mmcblk1p1 rootfstype=ext3 rootwait bootcmd=run bootcmd_sd0 bootcmd_emmc=set bootargs ${bootargs_emmc};ext2load mmc 1:1 0x48080000 /boot/Image;ext2load mmc 1:1 0x48000000 /boot/${dtb};run booti_cmd bootcmd_nfs=set bootargs ${bootargs_nfs};bootp 0x48080000 Image;tftp 0x48000000 ${dtb};run booti_cmd bootcmd_sd0=set bootargs ${bootargs_sd0};ext2load mmc 0:1 0x48080000 /boot/Image;ext2load mmc 0:1 0x48000000 /boot/${dtb};run booti_cmd bootdelay=3 booti_cmd=booti 0x48080000 - 0x48000000 dtb=Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb ethact=ravb ethaddr=2E:09:0A:00:BE:11 fdt_high=0xffffffffffffffff initrd_high=0xffffffffffffffff stderr=serial stdin=serial stdout=serial ver=U-Boot 2015.04 (Sep 23 2016 - 13:45:29) Environment size: 1092/131068 bytes

To verify the SD card, type the following in U-Boot prompt: => mmc dev 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device => mmc info Device: sh-sdhi Manufacturer ID: 3 OEM: 5344 Name: SL64G Tran Speed: 50000000 Rd Block Len: 512 SD version 3.0 High Capacity: Yes Capacity: 59.5 GiB Bus Width: 4-bit Erase Group Size: 512 Bytes => ext2ls mmc 0:1 /boot <DIR>      4096. <DIR>      4096 .. <SYM>        32 Image 14039040 Image-4.6.0-yocto-standard 69584 Image-r8a7795-h3ulcb.dtb

Build scripts examples
This example is for H3ULCB.View board. If you use other board, you need to modify the script. <ol>

<li> Directory Structure `--proprietary |--R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_for_Linux-20160906.tar.gz  `--R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_of_Linux_Drivers-20160906.tar.gz </li>
 * --build.sh

<li> Build script
 * 1) !/bin/sh

mkdir build || exit cd build WORK=`pwd` echo $WORK

git clone git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky git clone git://git.linaro.org/openembedded/meta-linaro.git git clone git://git.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded git clone git://github.com/CogentEmbedded/meta-rcar.git meta-renesas -b v2.12.0

cd $WORK/poky git checkout -b tmp 40376446904ae3529be41737fed9a0b650ed167d cd $WORK/meta-linaro git checkout -b tmp 9b1fd178309544dff1f7453e796a9437125bc0d9 cd $WORK/meta-openembedded git checkout -b tmp 8ab04afbffb4bc5184cfe0655049de6f44269990

cd $WORK/meta-renesas export PATCH_DIR=meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/patch/patch-for-linaro-gcc patch -p1 < ${PATCH_DIR}/0001-rcar-gen3-add-readme-for-building-with-Linaro-Gcc.patch unset PATCH_DIR

cd $WORK/ PKGS_DIR=$WORK/../proprietary cd $WORK/meta-renesas sh meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/copyscript/copy_evaproprietary_softwares.sh -f $PKGS_DIR
 * 1) sh meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/copyscript/copy_proprietary_softwares.sh -f $PKGS_DIR

cd $WORK source poky/oe-init-build-env

cp $WORK/meta-renesas/meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/conf/h3ulcb/linaro-gcc/mmp/*.conf ./conf/.
 * 1) cp $WORK/meta-renesas/meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/conf/h3ulcb/linaro-gcc/bsp/*.conf ./conf/.
 * 2) cp $WORK/meta-renesas/meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/conf/h3ulcb/linaro-gcc/gfx-only/*.conf ./conf/.

cd $WORK/build cp conf/local-wayland.conf conf/local.conf echo "DISTRO_FEATURES_append = \" use_eva_pkg\"" >> $WORK/build/conf/local.conf

echo "MACHINE_FEATURES_append = \" h3ulcb-view\"" >> $WORK/build/conf/local.conf
 * 1) echo "LVDSCAMERA_ONE = \"1\"" >> $WORK/build/conf/local.conf

bitbake core-image-weston </li>

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Building with Qt5
Refer to ADAS View Kit with Qt5

Known issues and limitations
TBD