Jethro is rather old... any plans to move forward?

[mlarsen]

Re: Working with Yocto

Hi Eric (and team),

Are there still no plans to move on from Jethro?

[Alex Kushleyev]

@mlarsen

We are not planning to make any (substantial) updates to VOXL1 system image. A good option for you to consider could be to use Docker and run the core services on the host OS and your software inside docker. Communication can be done via MPA / ROS between host and docker.

[mlarsen]

@Alex-Kushleyev Sorry for not being clear on this. We are using VOXL2. From what I can see, this is also based on Jethro?

[modaltb]

Hi @mlarsen ,

(I'm still a Bitbake/Yocto/Poky padawan but can report what I know!)

Our production VOXL2 build uses:
https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ype/external/yoctoproject.org/poky/-/blob/f5a57e939e626a5b7c6de5b51799ca602ed355ed/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf#L4
DISTRO_VERSION = "2.6.1"
DISTRO_CODENAME = "thud"

(I'm also pushing towards a new build with ubun20/kernel5.4, ~alpha level right now)
https://git.codelinaro.org/clo/ype/external/yoctoproject.org/poky/-/blob/yocto-upstream.lnx.4.0.r13-rel/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf?ref_type=heads#L4
DISTRO_VERSION = "3.1.14"
DISTRO_CODENAME = "dunfell"

[mlarsen]

@modaltb Great to know. I needed at least 2.1 to get layer support for RAUC. Which I hope ModalAI will support RAUC or SWUpdate out of the box at some point. Or another framework for OTA updates.