Pine64 Layer for OpenEmbedded/Yocto

This is the general hardware specific BSP overlay for the Pine64 devices.

This layer aims to support as many features as possible on Pine64 devices. Where possible the layer aims to use opensource and upstream projects avoiding custom forks and binary solutions.

This layer depends on:

• URI: git://github.com/openembedded/openembedded-core
  • branch: master
  • revision: HEAD
• URI: git://github.com/openembedded/bitbake
  • branch: master
  • revision: HEAD

Follow the usual steps to setup OpenEmbedded and bitbake.

MACHINE=sopine-a64 bitbake core-image-base

To use systemd add this to your local.conf:

DISTRO_FEATURES += "systemd"
VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_init_manager = "systemd"
DISTRO_FEATURES_BACKFILL_CONSIDERED = "sysvinit"

To use WiFi add this to your local.conf:

DISTRO_FEATURES += "ipv4 ipv6 wifi"
IMAGE_INSTALL_append = "linux-firmware-rtl8723bs"

To see the kernel boot log on the HDMI output, which is useful for debugging, change recipes-bsp/u-boot/files/boot.txt to the following:

setenv bootargs console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait

This results in adding console=tty0 which will direct Linux to display the console on the display.

To use Wayland graphics add this to your local.conf:

DISTRO_FEATURES += "wayland opengl"
PACKAGECONFIG_append_pn-virtual/mesa = "gallium lima"

Then build Weston using:

MACHINE=sopine-a64 bitbake core-image-weston

To use X11 as well add this to your local.conf as well:

DISTRO_FEATURES += "x11"

Then build X11 using:

MACHINE=sopine-a64 bitbake core-image-x11