R-Car/Chromium/m94

Introduction

This page contains information how to run chromium on R-Car Gen3 devices.

• Renesas R-Car-H3 Starter Kit Premier (unofficial name - H3ULCB)
• Renesas R-Car-M3 Starter Kit Pro (unofficial name - M3ULCB)
  • https://www.renesas.com/us/en/products/automotive-products/automotive-system-chips-socs/r-car-h3-m3-starter-kit

See also:

• Latest version: R-Car/Chromium
• List of chromium pages: Category:R-Car/Chromium

Topic

The new version of R-Car Starter Kit Premier is now on sale !!

• Equipped with R-Car H3e-2G
  

(En) https://www.renesas.com/jp/en/about/press-room/renesas-launches-r-car-gen3e-20-percent-higher-cpu-speed-automotive-infotainment-cockpit-and-digital
(Zh) https://www.renesas.com/jp/zh/about/press-room/renesas-launches-r-car-gen3e-20-percent-higher-cpu-speed-automotive-infotainment-cockpit-and-digital
(Jp) https://www.renesas.com/jp/ja/about/press-room/renesas-launches-r-car-gen3e-20-percent-higher-cpu-speed-automotive-infotainment-cockpit-and-digital

• CPU performance is increased 20% by supporting up to 2GHz frequency over past products.
  
• You can buy from here.
  

SW Release Information

Board name	SW name	Release date	Note
R-Car Starter Kit ( Premier / Pro )	Yocto v5.9.0 (stable) [New!!]	2022/02/08
Kingfisher Infotainment Board	Yocto v5.9.0 (stable) [New!!]	2022/02/14	To check for latest information, please refer to the meta-rcar/tree/v5.9.0.
	Android 10 (stable)	2021/07/26	R-Car Starter Kit Premier(R-Car H3) + Kingfisher is supported. R-Car Starter Kit Pro(RTP8J77961ASKB0SK0SA05A) + Kingfisher is also supported from 2021/11/25.
	Android P (stable)	2020/09/29	R-Car Starter Kit Premier(R-Car H3) + Kingfisher is supported. R-Car Starter Kit Pro(RTP8J77961ASKB0SK0SA05A) + Kingfisher is also supported from 2021/03/16.
CCPF-SK Board	Yocto v5.9.0 (latest) [New!!]	2022/02/08	Prebuilt binary is available in Quick startup guide page. (Updated on 2022/03/18)

R-Car Starter Kit is available

R-Car Starter Kit information

Board Name	SoC version	Hardware information	Where to buy
R-Car Starter Kit Premier (H3)	v3.0	Click here	Click here
R-Car Starter Kit Pro (M3)	v3.0	Click here	Click here

Environment

Host PC

Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 LTS (64bit) is recommended as OS. 32bit version is not supported.
Ubuntu 16.04 is not supported !!

See also:

• FAQ: How to build yocto image by using docker

Yocto BSP

Community Yocto BSP "Yocto v5.5.0 + Yocto Project 3.3.3(Poky-3.3.3)".
For more information, see R-Car Gen3 Community Yocto BSP Release Note.

Confirmed Board

Board	SoC	Confirmed
R-Car Starter Kit Premier	H3 v3.0 (1rank DDR)	OK
R-Car Starter Kit Premier	H3 v3.0 (2rank DDR)	NT
R-Car Starter Kit Premier	H3 v2.0 with 8GB DDR	NT
R-Car Starter Kit Premier	H3 v2.0 with 4GB DDR	NT
R-Car Starter Kit Pro	M3 v3.0	OK
R-Car Starter Kit Pro	M3 v1.0	NT

18px <translate> Note:</translate> NT='Not Tested'

See also:

• R-Car/Boards/H3SK#Hardware
• R-Car/Boards/M3SK#Hardware

Chromium Version

94.0.4606.71

Layer information

Layer	Repo	Branch	Commit ID
meta-browser	git://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser	master	8df26e66c28b43f1630fcd2cb952a1e69b6e6558
meta-clang	git://github.com/kraj/meta-clang	hardknott	b0d805060791006d651efd3d7ae3dd5add8f70fe

Required packages

Proprietary evaluation package

1. 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/application/automotive/r-car-h3-m3-documents-software

   Download two files:

   • R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_for_Linux-20210921.zip
   • R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_of_Linux_Drivers-20210921.zip

Host PC required package

1. Install required packages

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

   Refer to Yocto Project Quick Start for more information.

Building the BSP with Chromium browser

Build using script

1. Directory Structure

   |--build_m94.sh
   `--proprietary
      |--R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_for_Linux-20210921.zip
      `--R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_of_Linux_Drivers-20210921.zip
   

2. build script

   #!/bin/bash
   
   BOARD_LIST=("h3ulcb" "m3ulcb")
   TARGET_BOARD=$1
   PROPRIETARY_DIR=`pwd`/proprietary
   MILESTONE=$(basename ${0%.*} |cut -d'_' -f2)
   WORK=`pwd`/${TARGET_BOARD}_${MILESTONE}
   
   REPO_MANIFEST=hardknott-dev_v5.5.0.xml
   META_BROWSER_COMMIT=8df26e66c28b43f1630fcd2cb952a1e69b6e6558 # 94.0.4606.71
   META_CLANG_COMMIT=b0d805060791006d651efd3d7ae3dd5add8f70fe
   
   GFX_MMP_LIB=R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_for_Linux-20210921.zip
   GFX_MMP_DRIVER=R-Car_Gen3_Series_Evaluation_Software_Package_of_Linux_Drivers-20210921.zip
   
   YOCTO_PROJECT_CODENAME=$(echo ${REPO_MANIFEST} | cut -d '-' -f1)
   
   Usage () {
       echo "Usage: $0 \${TARGET_BOARD_NAME}"
       echo "BOARD_NAME list: "
       for i in ${BOARD_LIST[@]}; do echo "  - $i"; done
       exit
   }
   
   # Check Param.
   if ! `IFS=$'\n'; echo "${BOARD_LIST[*]}" | grep -qx "${TARGET_BOARD}"`; then
       Usage
   fi
   
   mkdir -p ${WORK}
   cd ${WORK}
   
   # Clone basic Yocto layers and switch to proper branches/commits
   curl https://storage.googleapis.com/git-repo-downloads/repo > ./repo
   chmod a+x ./repo
   ./repo init -b master -m ${REPO_MANIFEST} -u https://github.com/renesas-rcar/rcar-manifest.git
   ./repo sync
   ./repo forall -c git reset --hard
   ./repo forall -c git clean -df
   
   # Clone layers in parallel
   cd ${WORK}
   git clone https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser &
   git clone https://github.com/kraj/meta-clang -b ${YOCTO_PROJECT_CODENAME} &
   
   # Wait for all clone operations
   wait
   
   # Switch to proper branches/commits
   cd ${WORK}/meta-browser
   git pull; git checkout -B tmp ${META_BROWSER_COMMIT}; git clean -fd
   cd ${WORK}/meta-clang
   git pull; git checkout -B tmp ${META_CLANG_COMMIT}; git clean -fd
   
   # Populate meta-renesas with proprietary software packages
   PROP_DIR=${WORK}/proprietary
   mkdir -p ${PROP_DIR}
   unzip -qo ${PROPRIETARY_DIR}/${GFX_MMP_LIB} -d ${PROP_DIR}
   unzip -qo ${PROPRIETARY_DIR}/${GFX_MMP_DRIVER} -d ${PROP_DIR}
   cd $WORK/meta-renesas
   sh meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/copyscript/copy_proprietary_softwares.sh -f ${PROP_DIR}
   
   cd ${WORK}
   source poky/oe-init-build-env ${WORK}/build
   
   cd ${WORK}/build
   cp ${WORK}/meta-renesas/meta-rcar-gen3/docs/sample/conf/${TARGET_BOARD}/poky-gcc/mmp/*.conf ./conf/
   cp conf/local-wayland.conf conf/local.conf
   
   cat << 'EOS' >> conf/local.conf
   DISTRO_FEATURES_append = " h264enc_lib"
   PACKAGECONFIG_pn-chromium-ozone-wayland =" proprietary-codecs"
   IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " chromium-ozone-wayland"
   IMAGE_INSTALL_append = " ntp"
   EOS
   
   # Setting for building Chromium
   ulimit -n 8192
   
   # Add layers
   bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-clang
   bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-browser/meta-chromium
   bitbake-layers add-layer ../meta-openembedded/meta-networking # for ntp
   
   bitbake core-image-weston
   

3. build

   ./build_m94.sh <target_board_name>
   

   18px <translate> Note:</translate> target_board_name is "h3ulcb" or "m3ulcb"

   If the build completes successfully, all the necessary files are generated in a following directory:

   ./<target_board_name>_m94/build/tmp/deploy/images/<target_board_name>
   

   Image is a Kernel image, *.dtb is a blob file, core-image-<image_type>-<board_name>.tar.bz2 is the rootfs, modules-<board_name>.tgz are kernel modules.

4. You can now proceed with Running Yocto images

Running Yocto images

Linux kernel can be booted from microSD/USB memory/eMMC/TFTP.
Root FS can be mounted from microSD/USB memory/eMMC/NFS.
See also R-Car/Boards/Yocto-Gen3#Running_Yocto_images.

How to run Chromium

chromium --no-sandbox

How to test

Test	H3 v3.0(1rank DDR)	M3 v3.0
Launch Chromium	OK	OK
Maximize window of Chromium	OK	OK
Show "About Chromium"	OK	OK
Search youtube using google	OK	OK
Play video/audio on youtube	OK	OK
Run webgl sample(Aquarium)	OK	OK

18px <translate> Note:</translate> NT='Not Tested'

Known issues and limitations

See also R-Car/Boards/Yocto-Gen3#Known_issues_and_limitations.

Q&A site

https://renesasrulz.com/automotive/r-car-h3-m3-cockpit

FAQ site

• https://en-support.renesas.com/knowledgeBase/category/31363 (English page)
• https://ja-support.renesas.com/knowledgeBase/category/31403 (Japanese page)