resin-io/meta-wpe

Name: meta-wpe

Owner: Resin.io

Description: Yocto/OE - Web Platform for Embedded (WPE)

Forked from: WebPlatformForEmbedded/meta-wpe

Created: 2017-04-03 07:56:40.0

Updated: 2017-04-03 07:56:42.0

Pushed: 2017-04-03 18:05:06.0

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README

meta-wpe

meta-wpe is a meta layer for OpenEmbedded / Yocto environments. It provides the necessary recipes to build the WebPlatformforEmbedded components including the WPE WebKit browser.

Setup

Note: You only need this if you do not have an existing OpenEmbedded Yocto environment.

create a workspace for your yocto build:

$ mkdir -p rpi-yocto

Inside the newly created directory, initiate the repository

$ repo init -u ssh://git@github.com/WebPlatformForEmbedded/meta-wpe.git -b master -m tools/manifests/rpi-yocto.xml

Fetch and sync all repositories:

$ repo sync

Build

Initiate OE by invoking the oe init script:

$ source poky/oe-init-build-env rpi-ml-build

Add bb layers:

tbake-layers add-layer ../meta-raspberrypi

tbake-layers add-layer ../meta-wpe

tbake-layers add-layer ../meta-openembedded/meta-oe/

tbake-layers add-layer ../meta-openembedded/meta-multimedia/

Edit conf/local.conf and set the target machine: MACHINE = "raspberrypi3" you can use raspberrypi2 as well if you own raspberrypi2 machine.

Set GCC to use version 5.4:

GCC_VERSION_forcevariable = "5.4%"

Note: GCC 6.x is supported but experimental at this stage. Mileage may vary.

Build WPE with Westeros Compositor:

$ bitbake westeros-wpe-image

Install

To flash the sdimg on the sd card:

$ sudo dd if=tmp/deploy/images/raspberrypi3/westeros-wpe-image-raspberrypi3.rpi-sdimg of=/dev/sdX

Optional settings

Use 4.9 kernel (optional), edit conf/local.conf and set:

PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-raspberrypi = "4.9%"

To build without Westeros/Wayland support on RPI (fullscreen EGL), edit conf/local.conf and set:

BACKEND_rpi  = "rpi"
RO_FEATURES_remove = "wayland"

Note WPE has many other view backends it can use. To select specific setting, like BCM Nexus or IntelCE edit your conf/local.conf and set the WPE_BACKEND = foo directly.

To build an initramfs image, edit conf/local.conf and set:

RAMFS_IMAGE_BUNDLE_rpi = "1"
RAMFS_IMAGE_rpi = "wpe-initramfs-image"
EL_INITRAMFS = "-initramfs" BOOT_SPACE = "163840"

To install the initram fs, copy the zImage to the fat32 partition of your RPI.