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 * Alt
 * Blanche
 * BOCK-W
 * Gose
 * Koelsch
 * Lager
 * Marzen
 * Porter
 * Wheat
 * Salvator-X
 * SILK
 * ADAS Starter Kit (Stout)
 * ADAS Surround View Kit
 * R-Car Starter Kit Pro
 * R-Car Starter Kit Premier

Introduction

This is starting page for Embedded Linux on Renesas R-Car family of automotive embedded SoCs. Main goal is to make information on R-Car SoCs friendly, easy to access for embedded developers, enthusiasts. It does not aim to replace official Renesas support.

Links below could be used to get familiar with Renesas Automotive SoCs and R-Car Concortia:

• Renesas Automotive Products / Solutions
• Renesas Car Information Terminal Applications
• R-Car Consortium

Detailed information regarding R-Car SoCs (including roadmap, technical and marketing documents, BSPs and middleware) can be obtained directly from Renesas representative.

R-Car SoCs

Renesas R-Car SoC variants (Generations)

	Generation 1	Generation 2	Generation 3
"H" - Premium/High end	H1 - R8A7779	H2 - R8A7790	H3 - R8A7795 (or R8J7795)
"M" - Mid range	M1A - R8A7778	M2-W - R8A7791 M2-N - R8A7793	M3-W - R8A7796
"E" - Entry class	E1	E2 - R8A7794
"V" - ADAS		V2H - R8A7792

The R-Car devices pages lists the peripheral devices available in the R-Car SoCs along with usage information and test procedures.

R-Car Boards

Generation 1

Renesas R-Car Gen1 evaluation boards

	Standard	Low Cost Boards (LCB)
R-Car H1	Marzen	Geuze
R-Car M1A	BOCK-W	Milan
R-Car E1	Silverstone

Generation 2

Renesas R-Car Gen2 evaluation boards

	Standard	Low Cost Boards (LCB)
R-Car H2	Lager	ADAS Starter Kit (Stout) ADAS Surround View Kit
R-Car M2-W	Koelsch	Porter
R-Car M2-N	Gose
R-Car E2	Alt	SILK
R-Car V2H	Blanche	Wheat

Generation 3

Renesas R-Car Gen3 evaluation boards

	Standard	Low Cost Boards (LCB)
R-Car H3	Salvator-X	R-Car Starter Kit Premier
R-Car M3-W	Salvator-X	R-Car Starter Kit Pro

R-Car Linux

Upstream

Renesas mainline R-Car Linux tree is maintained by Simon Horman

Start here to get latest/closest upstream kernel:git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git

e.g. pull development branch: git clone -b devel git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas.git

TBD - add page regarding R-Car upstream development process (including branches/tags meaning)

R-Car Community

• Mailing list - via kernel.org linux-renesas-soc Majordomo.

Archives available here: http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.renesas-soc , http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-renesas-soc/

LTSI (Long Term Support Initiative)

Renesas SoCs and boards are supported as part of LTSI project - http://ltsi.linuxfoundation.org/ . Refer to 4.1.17-LTSI and 3.14.28-LTSI.

Renesas R-Car Gen 2 BSP Tree

Renesas R-Car Gen 2 BSP Tree located at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas-backport.git. Check out the latest R-Car Gen 2 BSP release tag.

for example: rcar-gen2/v1.9.7

Renesas R-Car Gen 3 BSP Tree

Renesas R-Car Gen 2 BSP Tree located at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas-bsp.git.Check out the latest R-Car Gen 3 BSP release tag.

for example: rcar-3.2.1

R-Car U-Boot

R-Car U-Boot mainline development is done using git://git.denx.de/u-boot-sh.git tree. It is maintained by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu.

e.g. pull renesas/bsp/rcar-gen2-1.8.0 branch and build U-Boot for Lager/Koelsch/Alt boards
git clone -b renesas/bsp/rcar-gen2-1.8.0  git://git.denx.de/u-boot-sh.git

build example

make O=/tmp/build clean
make O=/tmp/build mrproper
make O=/tmp/build gose_config
make O=/tmp/build all

R-Car Yocto

Renesas Yocto/Poky distribution is maintained by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu.

To get started with Yocto on R-Car Gen2 platform - pull git://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-renesas tree

If you pulled complete Yocto/poky trees, you should be able to kick-off a build using the 'oe-init-build-env' script in Poky. Update bblayers.conf by adding the meta-renesas and meta-rcar-gen2 layer. e.g.:

       BBLAYERS ?= " \
               <path to layer>/poky/meta \
               <path to layer>/poky/meta-yocto \
               <path to layer>/poky/meta-yocto-bsp \
               <path to layer>/meta-renesas \
               <path to layer>/meta-renesas/meta-rcar-gen2 \
       "

To build a specific target BSP configure the associated machine in local.conf:

       MACHINE ?= "<supported board name>" (lager, koelsch, gose, alt)

Build the target file system image using bitbake:

       $ bitbake core-image-minimal

R-Car Automotive Grade Linux

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) is a Linux Foundation Workgroup dedicated to creating open source software solutions for automotive applications.AGL is based on Yocto project for its construction and R-Car Porter board can be used to start an AGL distribution. Please check this page.

R-Car Genivi

GENIVI® is a nonprofit industry alliance committed to driving the broad adoption of specified, open source, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) software.Source:http://www.genivi.org/

As a service to the community Renesas maintains a git repository containing a R-Car Yocto BSP with the changes required for the standard Yocto BSP to work with theGenivi Yocto Baseline and Genivi Development Platform (GDP) already integrated. It is supported on a best effort basis.

You can find more information about building the Genivi Yocto Baseline for various Genivi versions in the Alliance pages for meta-ivihere.Information on building GDP for R-Car M2 Porter can be found here and E2 Silk here.

R-Car Tizen

TBD Renesas R-Car Tizen is already available via tizen.org trees. Add detailed instructions how to get started with Tizen for R-Car

R-Car Android

TBD This section will be added later