LORIX OS Build System (yocto) Quick Start

This workspace provides all the material needed to build a LORIX OS distribution for the Wifx gateways.

The LORIX OS documentation is available on https://iot.wifx.net/docs/lorix-os. This documention will focus on the LORIX OS Build System Quick Start.

Supported products

• LORIX One 256MB
• LORIX One 512MB
• Wifx L1

Pre-requisites

• Git
• 50 Gbytes of free disk space
• One of
  • A Linux based operating system compatible with Docker
  • Ubuntu 20.04

Prepare your environment

Download the workspace

Download the workspace using Git

$ cd ~
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/Wifx/lorix-os.git

Add the initial configuration

Copy default configuration files from the lorix-os/tools directory:

$ cd lorix-os
$ mkdir -p poky/build/conf
$ cp tools/config/* poky/build/conf

Note: The default 'machine' is the LORIX One 512MB. If want want to build for another machine, edit the poky/build/conf/local.conf file.

For other configuration changes, please check the configuration documentation.

Install the dependencies

To meet the dependencies needed for the build, you have two possibilities:

1. Docker: build into a Docker container containing all the dependencies
2. Native: install the dependencies on your system

We recommend building into the Docker container as it will ensure a reproductible build without interfering with the host system.

Follow the guides provided by those links. Once the dependency installed, you will have a compatible host system and can go on with building the images.

Build the images

From the workspace (lorix-os directory).

1. Enter the poky directory to configure the build system

   $ cd poky

2. Initialize the build directory

   $ source oe-init-build-env

   This will setup the environment. The build directory becomes the active directory.

3. Build the Wifx standard image

   $ bitbake wifx-image-os

   Typical bitbake output:

   Build Configuration:
   BB_VERSION           = "1.44.0"
   BUILD_SYS            = "x86_64-linux"
   NATIVELSBSTRING      = "universal"
   TARGET_SYS           = "arm-lorixos-linux-gnueabi"
   MACHINE              = "lorix-one-512"
   DISTRO               = "lorix-os"
   DISTRO_VERSION       = "1.2.0"
   TUNE_FEATURES        = "arm vfp cortexa5 neon thumb callconvention-hard"
   TARGET_FPU           = "hard"
   meta                 
   meta-poky            
   meta-yocto-bsp       = "zeus:419c17a948791fed2a9ffc61826260630218abfd"
   meta-oe              
   meta-networking      
   meta-python          
   meta-multimedia      = "zeus:2b5dd1eb81cd08bc065bc76125f2856e9383e98b"
   meta-wifx            
   meta-wifx-lorix      
   meta-wifx-mender     
   meta-wifx-openrc     = "1.2.x:5ca77b49be72af5673c0ab729229f759c0eb67f2"
   meta-rust-bin        = "HEAD:94b68bde7d6fa8560be8648b4ba0fe188b555e5a"
   

   The build take around 1 to 3 hours, depending on your host computer's performance, the connexion speed and the host configuration (filesystem journalization, antivirus, ...).

Extract the result

• System images: the release images are located at lorix-os/poky/build/tmp/deploy/images/<machine>/release
  • Programmable image : lorix-os-<version>_<machine>.wimg
    This image can be programmed to the gateway with the LORIX Programming tool
  • Update artifact : lorix-os-<version>_<machine>.mender
    This unsigned artifact can be used to upgrade a gateway though the upgrade system.
    By default, an official LORIX OS build will not accept unsigned images. Please refer to the official documentation to see how to enable unsigned updates.
• Packages: the system packages to use with opkg are located at lorix-os/poky/build/tmp/deploy/images/<machine>/ipk
  • If you want to provide these packages to your image, please check the OS_DISTRO_FEEDS_BASE_URL option of the release.conf file.

Support

You may find additional help in the Developer's Guide of the LORIX OS documentation;

Wifx's R&D team support@iot.wifx.net