Yocto layer for Update Factory support

About Update Factory

Update Factory is an artifact content and software update delivery IoT Platform. To learn more, please visit:
https://www.kynetics.com/update-factory

For Update Factory documentation visit:
https://docs.updatefactory.io/

meta-updatefactory integration

This layer provides support for the Update Factory platform to devices using a Yocto-based embedded Linux OS. Starting from Yocto release 4.0 (branch kirkstone) this layer implements the double copy strategy. For those looking to implement a single copy strategy, see meta-updatefactory-singlecopy.

This layer depends on:

• meta-swupdate
  https://github.com/sbabic/meta-swupdate.git

To integrate Update Factory support in your image you need to:

1. include the following snippet in your image recipe:
   require <relative-path-to>/recipes-images/images/swupdate-doublecopy.inc
   (see for example recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bbappend and recipes-images/images/core-image-weston.bbappend in this layer)

Currently support has been tested with boards by:

1. Raspberry Pi (RPi 4B)
   Please add:
   RPI_USE_U_BOOT = "1"
   in your local.conf to enable U-Boot support for RPi that is required by Update Factory
2. Toradex
3. Boundary Devices
4. Variscite

The layer is designed to make it as easy as possible to add support for new hardware.

Contributing

To contribute to this layer you should open a GitHub pull request for review.

Please refer to:
https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Commit_Patch_Message_Guidelines
for some useful guidelines to follow when submitting patches.

License

All metadata is EPL-2.0 licensed (see COPYING.EPL-2.0) unless otherwise stated. Source code included in tree for individual recipes is under the LICENSE stated in the associated recipe (.bb file) unless otherwise stated.