Support Qualcomm RB3 Gen2 board in meta-ros

[jiaxshi]

Why this discussion

Add support for additional boards is planned at milestone19 in ROS OpenEmbedded Working Group meeting minutes. Bring up this discussion for supporting Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 board.

Welcome everyone to share your thoughts and suggestions.

Hardware

Qualcomm RB3 Gen 2 development Kit

Software

Qualcomm has released a serials projects in quic-yocto for supporting Qualcomm platforms. Refer to README for setting up yocto based build enviroment.
The base manifest is consist of a serials of upstream projects(meta-openembedded, meta-security, meta-virtualization, meta-rust and meta-selinux).
We can simplely add meta-ros to this project and build image recipe with ros-core or ros-base added.

Build Instructions

Host enviroment set up

Please refer to README

Source download

mkdir workspace
cd workspace
repo init -u https://github.com/quic-yocto/qcom-manifest -b qcom-linux-kirkstone -m qcom-6.6.17-QLI.1.0-Ver.1.4.xml
repo sync -j8

cd layers
git clone -b kirkstone https://github.com/ros/meta-ros.git

Build

MACHINE=qcm6490 DISTRO=qcom-wayland source setup-environment
bitbake-layers add-layer ../layers/meta-ros/meta-ros-common/ ../layers/meta-ros/meta-ros2 ../layers/meta-ros/meta-ros2-humble/
echo "CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL += \"ros-core\"" >> ../layers/meta-qcom-distro/recipes-products/images/qcom-multimedia-image.bb
bitbake qcom-multimedia-image