TDA4VM-Q1: Building Arago for BeagleBone-AI64 - targeting Processor SDK version 11.00

Peter Tihanyi

Part Number: TDA4VM-Q1

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Based on this forum topic:
e2e.ti.com/.../tda4vm-q1-building-arago-for-beaglebone-ai64
I've tried to build Arago targeting Processor SDK 11.00.00 using processor-sdk-analytics-11.00.00-config.txt configuration file.

I created a container based on the TI Docker image, it seems that the version 10 compiles to BBAI64. However, something changed in version 11.00, the meta-ti-bsp layer no longer includes the beaglebone-ai64 machine recipe. Instead, they created a separate meta-beagle layer, which unfortunately is not a dependency of the meta-edgeai layer.

What should I do to make SDK 11 build like SDK 10?
Thanks for all the help and guidance!

3 months ago

+1 Jared McArthur 3 months ago

TI__Genius 17905 points

Hi Peter,

You will need to add the meta-beagle layer to your bblayers.conf. After that, you should be able to pull the recipes from the beagle layer.

Specify the MACHINE and you should be able to build Arago for a BBAI-64.

Best,
Jared

0 Peter Tihanyi 3 months ago in reply to Jared McArthur

Prodigy 10 points

Thanks for the help, I finally managed to build the OS image and SDKs!
I did the following:

git clone git.ti.com/.../oe-layersetup.git tisdk
cd tisdk
./oe-layertool-setup.sh -f configs/processor-sdk-analytics/processor-sdk-analytics-11.00.00-config.txt
ln -s j721e-evm sources/meta-edgeai/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-ti-staging/beaglebone-ai64

I added the following configuration to the local.conf file:

INHERIT += "rm_work"
MACHINE = "beaglebone-ai64"
TI_PREFERRED_BSP = "ti-6_12"
ARAGO_BRAND = "edgeai"
IMAGE_SR1_1_HS_FS_FILES:bsp-ti-6_12 = ""
IMAGE_SR1_1_HS_SE_FILES:bsp-ti-6_12 = ""
IMAGE_SR2_HS_FS_FILES:bsp-ti-6_12 = ""
IMAGE_SR2_HS_SE_FILES:bsp-ti-6_12 = ""
WKS_FILE:edgeai = "sdimage-2part-efi.wks.in"

And I added the /home/tisdk/tisdk/sources/meta-ti/meta-beagle line to the bblayers.conf file.

Then I did:
cd build/
. ./conf/setenv
# Target EdgeAI Filesystem
bitbake tisdk-edgeai-image
# Linux glibc toolchain
bitbake meta-toolchain-arago-tisdk
# K3R5 baremetal toolchain
bitbake mc:k3r5:meta-toolchain-arago

So what I have now:

In ./build/deploy-ti/images/beaglebone-ai64/ directory:
tisdk-edgeai-image-beaglebone-ai64.rootfs-20250623195935.wic.xz

In ./build/deploy-ti/images/sdk/ directory:
arago-2025.01-aarch64-linux-tisdk.sh
arago-2025.01-armv7a-eabi-sdk.sh

I would like some help on how to use the Linux SDK and armv7a RTOS SDK that came with the Arago build with ti-processor-sdk-rtos-j721e-evm-11_00_00_06?
I tried to follow the following links but it's not entirely clear to me:

https://software-dl.ti.com/jacinto7/esd/processor-sdk-linux-jacinto7/11_00_00_08/exports/docs/linux/Overview_Building_the_SDK.html#overview-building-the-sdk

https://software-dl.ti.com/jacinto7/esd/processor-sdk-linux-jacinto7/11_00_00_08/exports/docs/linux/Overview/GCC_ToolChain.html

https://software-dl.ti.com/jacinto7/esd/processor-sdk-rtos-jacinto7/latest/exports/docs/psdk_rtos/docs/user_guide/index.html

https://software-dl.ti.com/jacinto7/esd/processor-sdk-rtos-jacinto7/latest/exports/docs/psdk_rtos/docs/user_guide/developer_notes_psdkla.html

I do not fully understand how to set the environment variables so that the PSDK and the RTOS SDK work together. Or how to use the toolchain I built with the TI RTOS SDK package?

Apparently it's all because I want to use the "official" Ti Processor SDK and RTOS SDK with BB-AI64.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

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