Re: [meta-arago][master][PATCH 3/4] tensorflow-lite: upgrade 2.18.0 -> 2.20.0

Pratham Deshmukh <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Mar 2026 19:06:22 +0530
Newsgroups org.yoctoproject.lists.meta-arago
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 05/03/26 7:03 pm, Andrew Davis wrote:
> On 3/5/26 3:08 AM, Pratham Deshmukh wrote:
>> On 04/03/26 10:21 pm, Andrew Davis wrote:
>>> On 3/4/26 6:32 AM, Pratham Deshmukh wrote:
>>>> We are migrating Tensorflow-Lite from v2.18.0 to the
>>>> stable release v2.20.0
>>>>
>>>> Key Changes:
>>>>   - Pin flatbuffers-native and protobuf-native to use the same 
>>>> version as
>>>>     TensorFlow Lite 2.20.0 to avoid version mismatch
>>>>   - Updated SRCREV for all the dependencies
>>>>   - Updated recipe to meet the build compatibilty
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Pratham Deshmukh <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>>   .../flatbuffers/flatbuffers-arago.inc         |  8 +++
>>>>   .../flatbuffers/flatbuffers.bbappend          |  4 ++
>>>>   .../protobuf/protobuf-arago.inc               | 18 +++++++
>>>>   .../protobuf/protobuf_%.bbappend              |  5 ++
>>>>   ...te_2.18.0.bb => tensorflow-lite_2.20.0.bb} | 52 
>>>> ++++++++++---------
>>>>   5 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>>>>   create mode 100644 
>>>> meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers-arago.inc
>>>>   create mode 100644 
>>>> meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.bbappend
>>>>   create mode 100644 
>>>> meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-arago.inc
>>>>   create mode 100644 
>>>> meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_%.bbappend
>>>>   rename 
>>>> meta-arago-extras/recipes-framework/tensorflow-lite/{tensorflow-lite_2.18.0.bb 
>>>> => tensorflow-lite_2.20.0.bb} (86%)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git 
>>>> a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers-arago.inc 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers-arago.inc
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 00000000..d85efc8b
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers-arago.inc
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
>>>> +# Pin flatbuffers-native to use the same version as TensorFlow 
>>>> Lite 2.20.0
>>>> +# to avoid version mismatch errors
>>>> +
>>>> +# Override version to match
>>>> +PV = "24.3.25"
>>>> +
>>>> +# Use specific commit hash that corresponds to v24.3.25 tag
>>>> +SRCREV = "595bf0007ab1929570c7671f091313c8fc20644e"
>>>> diff --git 
>>>> a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.bbappend 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.bbappend
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 00000000..2a627698
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/flatbuffers/flatbuffers.bbappend
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
>>>> +# Conditionally include Arago-specific customizations for 
>>>> flatbuffers-native
>>>> +FLATBUFFERS_ARAGO = ""
>>>> +FLATBUFFERS_ARAGO:arago = "flatbuffers-arago.inc"
>>>> +require ${FLATBUFFERS_ARAGO}
>>>> diff --git 
>>>> a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-arago.inc 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-arago.inc
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 00000000..489b1444
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-arago.inc
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
>>>> +# Pin protobuf-native to use the same version as TensorFlow Lite 
>>>> 2.20.0
>>>> +# to avoid version mismatch errors
>>>> +
>>>> +# Override version to match
>>>> +PV = "3.21.9"
>>>> +
>>>> +# Use specific commit hash that corresponds to v24.3.25 tag
>>>> +SRCREV = "90b73ac3f0b10320315c2ca0d03a5a9b095d2f66"
>>>> +
>>>> +# Override SRC_URI to use 3.21.x branch and remove incompatible 
>>>> patches
>>>> +SRC_URI = 
>>>> "git://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git;branch=main;protocol=https 
>>>> \
>>>> + file://run-ptest \
>>>> +          "
>>>> +
>>>> +LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = " \
>>>> + file://LICENSE;md5=37b5762e07f0af8c74ce80a8bda4266b \
>>>> + 
>>>> file://third_party/utf8_range/LICENSE;md5=ef460f31070fd7184bd9059de2e4b132 
>>>> \
>>>> +"
>>>> diff --git 
>>>> a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_%.bbappend 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_%.bbappend
>>>> new file mode 100644
>>>> index 00000000..51c679a5
>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>> +++ b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf_%.bbappend
>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
>>>> +# Conditionally include Arago-specific customizations for 
>>>> flatbuffers-native
>>>> +PROTOBUF_ARAGO = ""
>>>> +PROTOBUF_ARAGO:arago = "protobuf-arago.inc"
>>>> +
>>>> +require ${PROTOBUF_ARAGO}
>>>> diff --git 
>>>> a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-framework/tensorflow-lite/tensorflow-lite_2.18.0.bb 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-framework/tensorflow-lite/tensorflow-lite_2.20.0.bb 
>>>>
>>>> similarity index 86%
>>>> rename from 
>>>> meta-arago-extras/recipes-framework/tensorflow-lite/tensorflow-lite_2.18.0.bb
>>>> rename to 
>>>> meta-arago-extras/recipes-framework/tensorflow-lite/tensorflow-lite_2.20.0.bb
>>>> index c76939ac..57278f5b 100644
>>>> --- 
>>>> a/meta-arago-extras/recipes-framework/tensorflow-lite/tensorflow-lite_2.18.0.bb
>>>> +++ 
>>>> b/meta-arago-extras/recipes-framework/tensorflow-lite/tensorflow-lite_2.20.0.bb
>>>> @@ -8,18 +8,19 @@ LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
>>>>   LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = 
>>>> "file://LICENSE;md5=4158a261ca7f2525513e31ba9c50ae98"
>>>>     # Get major of the PV variable
>>>> -MAJOR = "${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0]}"
>>>> +TF_MAJOR = "${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[0]}"
>>>> +TF_MINOR = "${@d.getVar('PV').split('.')[1]}"
>>>> +TF_PATCH = "${@(d.getVar('PV').split('.') + ['0', '0'])[2]}"
>>>>     SRC_URI = " \
>>>> - 
>>>> git://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow.git;protocol=https;branch=r2.18 
>>>> \
>>>> + 
>>>> git://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow.git;protocol=https;branch=r2.20 
>>>> \
>>>> file://0001-lite-Update-CMakeLists-for-building-_pywrap_tensorfl.patch 
>>>> \
>>>> file://0002-lite-Update-CMakeLists-for-building-shared-object-li.patch 
>>>> \
>>>> - 
>>>> file://0003-CMakeLists-Fix-build-issues-observed-in-TFlite-v2.18.patch 
>>>> \
>>>> file://tensorflow2-lite.pc.in \
>>>>   "
>>>>     SRC_URI += " \
>>>> - 
>>>> git://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git;protocol=https;branch=lts_2023_08_02;name=abseil-cpp;destsuffix=${S}/external/abseil-cpp 
>>>> \
>>>> + 
>>>> git://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git;protocol=https;branch=lts_2025_01_27;name=abseil-cpp;destsuffix=${S}/external/abseil-cpp 
>>>> \
>>>> git://gitlab.com/libeigen/eigen.git;protocol=https;branch=master;name=eigen;destsuffix=${S}/external/eigen 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/google/farmhash.git;protocol=https;branch=master;name=farmhash;destsuffix=${S}/external/farmhash 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/petewarden/OouraFFT.git;protocol=https;branch=master;name=fft2d;destsuffix=${S}/external/fft2d 
>>>> \
>>>> @@ -28,35 +29,35 @@ SRC_URI += " \
>>>> git://github.com/jax-ml/ml_dtypes.git;branch=main;protocol=https;name=ml_dtypes;destsuffix=${S}/external/ml_dtypes 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/google/ruy.git;branch=master;protocol=https;name=ruy;destsuffix=${S}/external/ruy 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/google/flatbuffers;branch=master;protocol=https;name=flatbuffers;destsuffix=${S}/external/flatbuffers 
>>>> \
>>>> - 
>>>> git://github.com/Maratyszcza/pthreadpool.git;branch=master;protocol=https;name=pthreadpool-source;destsuffix=${S}/external/pthreadpool-source 
>>>> \
>>>> + 
>>>> git://github.com/google/pthreadpool.git;branch=main;protocol=https;name=pthreadpool-source;destsuffix=${S}/external/pthreadpool-source 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/google/XNNPACK.git;branch=master;protocol=https;name=xnnpack;destsuffix=${S}/external/xnnpack 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/Maratyszcza/FXdiv.git;branch=master;protocol=https;name=FXdiv-source;destsuffix=${S}/external/FXdiv-source 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/Maratyszcza/FP16.git;branch=master;protocol=https;name=FP16-source;destsuffix=${S}/external/FP16-source 
>>>> \
>>>> git://git.gitlab.arm.com/kleidi/kleidiai.git;branch=main;protocol=https;name=kleidiai;destsuffix=${S}/external/kleidiai 
>>>> \
>>>> git://github.com/Maratyszcza/psimd.git;branch=master;protocol=https;name=psimd;destsuffix=${S}/external/psimd 
>>>> \
>>>> - 
>>>> git://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git;branch=25.x;protocol=https;name=protobuf;destsuffix=${S}/external/protobuf 
>>>> \
>>>> + 
>>>> git://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf.git;branch=main;protocol=https;name=protobuf;destsuffix=${S}/external/protobuf 
>>>> \
>>>>   "
>>>>     SRCREV_FORMAT = "default"
>>>>     # Matches v${PV} tag
>>>> -SRCREV = "6550e4bd80223cdb8be6c3afd1f81e86a4d433c3"
>>>> -SRCREV_abseil-cpp = "fb3621f4f897824c0dbe0615fa94543df6192f30"
>>>> +SRCREV = "72fbba3d20f4616d7312b5e2b7f79daf6e82f2fa"
>>>> +SRCREV_abseil-cpp = "d9e4955c65cd4367dd6bf46f4ccb8cd3d100540b"
>>>>   SRCREV_eigen = "33d0937c6bdf5ec999939fb17f2a553183d14a74"
>>>>   SRCREV_farmhash = "0d859a811870d10f53a594927d0d0b97573ad06d"
>>>>   SRCREV_fft2d = "c6fd2dd6d21397baa6653139d31d84540d5449a2"
>>>>   SRCREV_gemmlowp = "16e8662c34917be0065110bfcd9cc27d30f52fdf"
>>>> -SRCREV_cpuinfo = "b73ae6ce38d5dd0b7fe46dbe0a4b5f4bab91c7ea"
>>>> +SRCREV_cpuinfo = "de0ce7c7251372892e53ce9bc891750d2c9a4fd8"
>>>>   SRCREV_ml_dtypes = "24084d9ed2c3d45bf83b7a9bff833aa185bf9172"
>>>>   SRCREV_ruy = "3286a34cc8de6149ac6844107dfdffac91531e72"
>>>>   SRCREV_flatbuffers = "e6463926479bd6b330cbcf673f7e917803fd5831"
>>>> -SRCREV_pthreadpool-source = 
>>>> "4fe0e1e183925bf8cfa6aae24237e724a96479b8"
>>>> -SRCREV_xnnpack = "6b83f69d4938da4dc9ad63c00bd13e9695659a51"
>>>> +SRCREV_pthreadpool-source = 
>>>> "c2ba5c50bb58d1397b693740cf75fad836a0d1bf"
>>>> +SRCREV_xnnpack = "585e73e63cb35c8a416c83a48ca9ab79f7f7d45e"
>>>>   SRCREV_FXdiv-source = "63058eff77e11aa15bf531df5dd34395ec3017c8"
>>>> -SRCREV_FP16-source = "0a92994d729ff76a58f692d3028ca1b64b145d91"
>>>> -SRCREV_kleidiai = "cddf991af5de49fd34949fa39690e4e906e04074"
>>>> +SRCREV_FP16-source = "4dfe081cf6bcd15db339cf2680b9281b8451eeb3"
>>>> +SRCREV_kleidiai = "dc69e899945c412a8ce39ccafd25139f743c60b1"
>>>>   SRCREV_psimd = "072586a71b55b7f8c584153d223e95687148a900"
>>>> -SRCREV_protobuf = "4a2aef570deb2bfb8927426558701e8bfc26f2a4"
>>>> +SRCREV_protobuf = "90b73ac3f0b10320315c2ca0d03a5a9b095d2f66"
>>>>     inherit setuptools3 cmake
>>>>   @@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ OECMAKE_SOURCEPATH = "${S}/tensorflow/lite"
>>>>   # to further optimize the build for production use.
>>>>   # Hence, activate -O3 optimization and disable debug symbols.
>>>>   OECMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE = "-O3 -DNDEBUG"
>>>> -OECMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE = "-O3 -DNDEBUG -flax-vector-conversions"
>>>> +OECMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE = "-O3 -DNDEBUG -flax-vector-conversions 
>>>> -DTF_MAJOR_VERSION=${TF_MAJOR} -DTF_MINOR_VERSION=${TF_MINOR} 
>>>> -DTF_PATCH_VERSION=${TF_PATCH} -DTF_VERSION_SUFFIX=\"\""
>>>>     OECMAKE_C_FLAGS_RELEASE:append:arm = " -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon"
>>>>   OECMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_RELEASE:append:arm = " -march=armv7-a -mfpu=neon"
>>>> @@ -112,9 +113,8 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE:append = " \
>>>>       -DCMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR=${TENSORFLOW_TARGET_ARCH} \
>>>>       -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE:BOOL=ON \
>>>> -DPYTHON_TARGET_INCLUDE=${RECIPE_SYSROOT}${includedir}/${PYTHON_DIR} \
>>>> - 
>>>> -DNUMPY_TARGET_INCLUDE=${RECIPE_SYSROOT}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/numpy/core/include 
>>>> \
>>>> + 
>>>> -DNUMPY_TARGET_INCLUDE=${RECIPE_SYSROOT}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/numpy/_core/include 
>>>> \
>>>> -DPYBIND11_TARGET_INCLUDE=${RECIPE_SYSROOT}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/pybind11/include 
>>>> \
>>>> -    -DTFLITE_VERSION_MAJOR=${MAJOR}  \
>>>>       -DTFLITE_HOST_TOOLS_DIR=${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE} \
>>>> -DPTHREADPOOL_SOURCE_DIR=${S}/external/pthreadpool-source \
>>>>       -DFXDIV_SOURCE_DIR=${S}/external/FXdiv-source \
>>>> @@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE:append = " \
>>>>       -DCPUINFO_SOURCE_DIR=${S}/external/cpuinfo \
>>>>       -DKLEIDIAI_SOURCE_DIR=${S}/external/kleidiai \
>>>>       -DPSIMD_SOURCE_DIR=${S}/external/psimd \
>>>> +    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD=17 \
>>>> +    -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED=ON \
>>>>       --compile-no-warning-as-error \
>>>>       --log-level=VERBOSE \
>>>>   "
>>>> @@ -130,7 +132,6 @@ do_configure:prepend() {
>>>>       for i in abseil-cpp cpuinfo eigen farmhash fft2d flatbuffers 
>>>> FP16-source FXdiv-source gemmlowp kleidiai ml_dtypes psimd protobuf 
>>>> pthreadpool-source ruy xnnpack; do
>>>>           cp -ra ${S}/external/$i ${B}/$i
>>>>       done
>>>> -
>>>
>>> Random whitespace change
>>>
>> I'll fix this.
>>>>       # There is no Fortran compiler in the toolchain, but bitbake 
>>>> sets this variable anyway with unavailable
>>>>       # binary & it leads to "CMake Error: Could not find compiler 
>>>> set in environment variable FC:"
>>>>       unset FC
>>>> @@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ do_compile:append() {
>>>>       BUILD_DIR=${B}
>>>>       TENSORFLOW_DIR=${S}
>>>> TENSORFLOW_LITE_DIR="${TENSORFLOW_DIR}/tensorflow/lite"
>>>> -    TENSORFLOW_VERSION=$(grep "_VERSION = " 
>>>> "${TENSORFLOW_DIR}/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py" | cut -d= 
>>>> -f2 | sed "s/[ '-]//g")
>>>> +    TENSORFLOW_VERSION=$(grep "_VERSION = " 
>>>> "${TENSORFLOW_DIR}/tensorflow/tools/pip_package/setup.py.tpl" | cut 
>>>> -d= -f2 | sed "s/[ '-]//g")
>>>>       mkdir -p "${B}/tflite_runtime"
>>>>       cp -r "${TENSORFLOW_LITE_DIR}/tools/pip_package/debian" \
>>>> "${TENSORFLOW_LITE_DIR}/tools/pip_package/MANIFEST.in" \
>>>> @@ -156,22 +157,23 @@ do_compile:append() {
>>>>          "${B}/tflite_runtime"
>>>>       echo "__version__ = '${TENSORFLOW_VERSION}'" >> 
>>>> "${BUILD_DIR}/tflite_runtime/__init__.py"
>>>>       echo "__git_version__ = '$(git -C "${TENSORFLOW_DIR}" 
>>>> describe)'" >> "${BUILD_DIR}/tflite_runtime/__init__.py"
>>>> -
>>>> +
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>>>       export PACKAGE_VERSION="${TENSORFLOW_VERSION}"
>>>>       export PROJECT_NAME="tflite_runtime"
>>>>       cp "${B}/_pywrap_tensorflow_interpreter_wrapper.so" 
>>>> "tflite_runtime"
>>>> -
>>>> +
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>>>       setuptools3_do_compile
>>>>   }
>>>>     do_install() {
>>>>       # Install tensorflow-lite dynamic library
>>>>       install -d ${D}${libdir}
>>>> -    install -m 0644 ${B}/libtensorflow-lite.so.${MAJOR} 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/libtensorflow-lite.so.${PV}
>>>> +    install -m 0644 ${B}/libtensorflow-lite.so. 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/libtensorflow-lite.so.${PV}
>>>>   -    ln -sf libtensorflow-lite.so.${PV} 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/libtensorflow-lite.so.${MAJOR}
>>>> +    ln -sf libtensorflow-lite.so.${PV} 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/libtensorflow-lite.so.${TF_MAJOR}
>>>>       ln -sf libtensorflow-lite.so.${PV} 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/libtensorflow-lite.so
>>>> -
>>>> +    ln -sf libtensorflow-lite.so.${PV} 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/libtensorflow-lite.so.
>>>> +
>>>
>>> What is a symline with the name same as the above but with a "." at 
>>> the end doing for us?
>>>
>> benchmark_model needs libtensorflow-lite.so. for benchmarking 
>> purpose. Without this the benchmarking fails when executing 
>> /opt/tensorflow-lite/tools/benchmark_model
>
> It needs a library that ends in "."? Not sure I beleive that, and if 
> so then that is a
> bug you should fix and add a patch.
>
> Andrew
>
Yeah looks like a bug [0]. I'll add a patch to fix it.

[0] https://gist.github.com/PrathamTI/f306ee96a046c99232c77c8a39194902

>>>>       # armnn expects the the dynamic library of tensorflow lite to 
>>>> be named as "libtensorflowlite.so"
>>>>       # Eg - 
>>>> https://github.com/ARM-software/armnn/blob/branches/armnn_24_11/delegate/cmake/Modules/FindTfLite.cmake#L19
>>>>       # Hence, create a symbolic link to handle the same
>>>> @@ -197,7 +199,7 @@ do_install() {
>>>>         # Install pkgconfig file required for NNstreamer build
>>>>       install -d ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig
>>>> -    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/tensorflow2-lite.pc.in 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/tensorflow2-lite.pc
>>>> +    install -m 0644 ${WORKDIR}/sources/tensorflow2-lite.pc.in 
>>>> ${D}${libdir}/pkgconfig/tensorflow2-lite.pc
>>>>       sed -i 's:@version@:${PV}:g
>>>>               s:@libdir@:${libdir}:g
>>>>               s:@includedir@:${includedir}:g' \
>>>
>