RNX-RZG2UL-OSM Yocto Linux

Overview

The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products, regardless of the hardware architecture.
This article show how to build Yocto Image for RNX-RZG2UL-OSM CPU module using:

Yocto	Linux Kernel	U-BOOT
Poky	5.10.184	2021.10

Learn more about Yocto

Installing required packages

Please make sure your host PC is running Ubuntu 20.04+ 64-bit and install the following packages:

$ sudo apt-get install gawk wget git-core diffstat unzip texinfo gcc-multilib \
build-essential chrpath socat cpio python python3 python3-pip python3-pexpect \
xz-utils debianutils iputils-ping libsdl1.2-dev xterm

$ sudo apt-get install autoconf libtool libglib2.0-dev libarchive-dev python-git \
sed cvs subversion coreutils texi2html docbook-utils python-pysqlite2 \
help2man make gcc g++ desktop-file-utils libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev \
mercurial automake groff curl lzop asciidoc u-boot-tools dos2unix mtd-utils pv \
libncurses5 libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev libelf-dev zlib1g-dev bmap-tools

More details about the Yocto Environment Setup can be found on the Yocto official site

Download Yocto based on Renesas Verified Linux Package

$ git config --global user.name "Your Name"
$ git config --global user.email "Your Email"

$ mkdir ~/yocto-renesas
$ cd ~/yocto-renesas

• Download the Renesas Verified Linux Package
  

$ git clone https://github.com/ronetix/rzg_vlp.git
$ cd rzg_vlp

Setup and build Yocto

$ TEMPLATECONF=$PWD/meta-renesas/meta-rzg2l/docs/template/conf/ source poky/oe-init-build-env build
$ MACHINE=rnx-rzg2ul-osm bitbake core-image-bsp

Build Results

The resulted images are located in tmp/deploy/images/rnx-rzg2ul-osm

See also

• Yocto Linux
• Building Linux Kernel
• Building U-Boot