[zcrandall10]

Document host preparation, image configuration and build, flashing, USB networking, example execution, and optional SDK tests.

Use tegra-demo-distro master with the meta-iceoryx2 holoscan-sdk-5.0.0 tag, including layer registration after setup. Add troubleshooting guidance and tutorial metadata with hardware and SDK requirements.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a tutorial for building and flashing the Holoscan Yocto demo image on Jetson AGX Thor, connecting over USB networking, and running the installed C++ and Python examples.
  • Documented host and board requirements, setup steps, optional SDK tests, expected outputs, and troubleshooting guidance.
  • Added tutorial details on supported platforms, tested SDK versions, required hardware, and the optional monitor for display tests.

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Walkthrough

Adds a tutorial for building and flashing the Holoscan Yocto demo image on Jetson AGX Thor. It documents host setup, board access, example execution, optional SDK tests, and troubleshooting. Adds metadata describing the tutorial’s requirements and supported platforms.

Changes

Yocto Demo Image Tutorial

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host setup and image build tutorials/yocto-demo-image/README.md, tutorials/yocto-demo-image/metadata.json	Documents Ubuntu host setup, Yocto configuration, image build steps, and tutorial requirements and platforms.
Flash the image tutorials/yocto-demo-image/README.md	Documents flash-package extraction and board recovery, flashing, and reboot steps.
Connect, run examples, and test tutorials/yocto-demo-image/README.md	Documents USB networking and SSH access, C++ and Python example checks, optional SDK tests, and troubleshooting.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~8 minutes

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 42e41

The tutorial may produce an incompatible or unreproducible build, weaken host security, fail during board flashing, and stop before running its optional tests. These issues should be fixed before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

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Actionable comments posted: 6

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• 🪄 Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @tutorials/yocto-demo-image/metadata.json:
- Around line 16-18: Update the version and matching changelog key in the
metadata to 0.1.0, keeping the existing changelog entry text unchanged.

Review comments at @tutorials/yocto-demo-image/README.md:
- Around line 118-119: Update the clone instructions in the README to pin the
tested tegra-demo-distro commit instead of tracking the moving master branch,
and document the version or commit used so readers can reproduce the tested
layer combination.
- Line 38: Update the Jetson AGX Thor prerequisite and related metadata to
identify jetson-agx-thor-devkit as supporting the 128 GB P3834-0008 module, not
the 64 GB variant, and add a step requiring readers to confirm their
hardware/board variant before flashing.
- Around line 103-105: Update the bitbake AppArmor profile to match only the
protected, checkout-specific executable path instead of any bitbake/bin/bitbake
path; document that this changes host AppArmor permissions and explain how to
remove the profile and restore the prior host configuration after the build.
- Line 6: Add a host-to-board build and flash workflow diagram to the README
section headed “Build and run the Holoscan Yocto demo on AGX Thor,” showing the
progression from host build through flashing to the board.
- Line 229: Update the boardctl setup instructions to document a second USB-C
connection from the host to the devkit’s board-automation USB-C port, in
addition to the recovery connection. In the recovery and power_on commands,
replace the thor-jetson-devkit target with the documented thor-jetson target.

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[bhashemian]

could you please update this with the version you have tested? Thanks

[bhashemian]

I believe the only valid languages defined in the schemas as holoscan-cli are Python and C++. Could you please fix this?

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Minor · Add ptest-runner to the image. · README.md:309-317

tutorials/yocto-demo-image/README.md:309-317
Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add ptest-runner to the image.

The test configuration enables ptest, but the reachable package groups and Holoscan ptest package do not install the separate ptest-runner package. Following the tutorial can therefore fail at line 311 with ptest-runner: not found.

Suggested fix

 DISTRO_FEATURES:append = " ptest"
+IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " ptest-runner"

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Review comment at @tutorials/yocto-demo-image/README.md around lines 309 - 317:
Add the separate ptest-runner package to the tutorial image’s install
configuration so the documented ptest command is available; keep the existing
ptest feature configuration unchanged.

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[devin-ai-integration]

Thanks for the walkthrough. It's thorough, and the expected outputs I checked match the sources (for example, holoscan::hello() prints Hello Holoscan!, and IMAGE_INSTALL ?= "${CORE_IMAGE_BASE_INSTALL}" makes the bitbake-getvar check valid). The metadata now passes the required fields of tutorial.schema.json, and the earlier language/tested_versions comments are addressed in 42e41d4.

Main points are inline:

1. Reproducibility: master is a moving upstream mirror, and a matching holoscan-sdk-5.0.0 tag already exists.
2. The README says the HoloMQ iceoryx2 patches come from the wrong layer.
3. The AppArmor step needs cleanup instructions (CONTRIBUTING → "Document system changes").
4. CONTRIBUTING requires a splash image or diagram.
5. Two small robustness fixes: the troubleshooting entry for the missing layer, and the boardctl lookup.

On CodeRabbit's outside-diff "add ptest-runner" finding: I don't think it's needed. At the pinned openembedded-core, ptest.bbclass sets RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest += "ptest-runner", and tegrademo doesn't set NO_RECOMMENDATIONS, so holoscan-sdk-ptest already brings it in.

Nit: the latest commit subject is just yocto-demo:. Please give the squash-merge title a full subject.

Written by Devin

[devin-ai-integration]

Pin the distro checkout. NVIDIA/tegra-demo-distro master is currently identical to OE4T/tegra-demo-distro master (035a06e). It moves with upstream, and every submodule bump (bitbake, openembedded-core, meta-tegra, meta-tegra-community) changes what readers build. Meanwhile meta-iceoryx2 is pinned to a tag with a SHA check, so the two halves of the build aren't equally reproducible.

NVIDIA/tegra-demo-distro also has a holoscan-sdk-5.0.0 tag (8055696). That tag already carries meta-iceoryx2 at 1166f55 as a submodule (repos/meta-iceoryx2, layers/meta-iceoryx2) and lists it in the tegrademo-extended bblayers.conf.sample. With the tag, the manual clone, symlink, and add-layer steps in step 3 would go away. Note that the tag is not on master.

Which ref did you test? Two options:

• Switch to --branch holoscan-sdk-5.0.0 and drop the manual layer steps, if that is the intended 5.0 release combination.
• Otherwise, pin the tested master commit and print and check it, as you do for meta-iceoryx2, for example: git -C tegra-demo-distro log -1 --format=%H.

CONTRIBUTING also asks for an integrity check on external downloads where one is available.

[devin-ai-integration]

On master (035a06e), layers/meta-tegrademo/dynamic-layers/meta-iceoryx2/ only contains the README and packagegroup-demo-holoscan.bb. The iceoryx2 HoloMQ bbappends and patches (iceoryx2-holomq-patches.inc, 0001-add-sample-released-handler.patch, and so on) live in meta-tegra-community's dynamic-layers/meta-iceoryx2/recipes-iceoryx2/. They are only under meta-tegrademo on the holoscan-sdk-5.0.0 tag. The effect is the same, since adding the layer activates them either way, but please fix the location or make the sentence layer-agnostic. For example: "Adding meta-iceoryx2 also activates the dynamic-layers/meta-iceoryx2 content in meta-tegra-community and meta-tegrademo, which provides the Holoscan recipes, the demo package groups, and the iceoryx2 patches required by HoloMQ."

[devin-ai-integration]

This step changes host security policy. CONTRIBUTING ("Document system changes and security-sensitive steps") asks for an explanation of what the change affects and for cleanup instructions. Please add a sentence saying that the profile grants user-namespace creation to any executable matching /**/bitbake/bin/bitbake, not just this checkout. Then add how to undo it once the build host is no longer needed:

sudo apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/bitbake
sudo rm /etc/apparmor.d/bitbake

Optionally, narrow the profile to the absolute path of this checkout's repos/bitbake/bin/bitbake.

[devin-ai-integration]

CONTRIBUTING requires every tutorial README to include "at least one splash image, diagram, or other visualization". A small diagram would satisfy this and help orient readers. For example, a Mermaid flowchart (GitHub renders these): Ubuntu host → bitbake demo-image-holoscan → tegraflash package → initrd-flash over the recovery USB-C port → AGX Thor boots → SSH over USB networking (192.168.55.1) → hello_world / ptest.

[devin-ai-integration]

If meta-iceoryx2 wasn't added, demo-image-holoscan is skipped on purpose: the recipe raises SkipRecipe('requires the meta-iceoryx2 layer'), and BitBake reports it as skipped. Please add that case here, with a quick check: bitbake-layers show-layers | grep meta-iceoryx2. If nothing is printed, rerun the add-layer step from step 3.

[devin-ai-integration]

Nit: find can return several paths here, for example when work-shared holds more than one L4T version after a BSP bump. It can also return none, and sudo "" -t ... then fails with a confusing error. Suggest:

BOARDCTL=$(find "$BUILDDIR/tmp/work-shared" \
  -path '*/Linux_for_Tegra/tools/board_automation/boardctl' -print -quit)
test -x "$BOARDCTL" || echo "boardctl not found; use the recovery buttons instead"