ti: Add more firmware, GPU etc packages

[jsuhaas22]

Description

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TI Debian images support different features, such as IPC, Weston (as OOB screen), GPU acceleration, camera etc. So to have these working by-default in our images, this PR adds certain packages such as:

• gstreamer (required for camera)
• chromium
• GPU and mesa packages
• k3conf (a diagnostic tool for TI devices)
• weston ... etc

Additionally, there are 2 more things done here:

1. Weston service file is added, and placed in /lib/systemd/system/. This is to start weston on boot by-default. Note that weston doesn't launch on first boot when the armbian-firstlogin script runs, but starts launching from subsequent boots.
2. dkms autoinstall builds and installs the ti-img-rogue--dkms package for the current kernel. If this isn't done here, it will done during first boot, which would make the first boot very slow.

How Has This Been Tested?

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• boot tested AM62x to see weston come up
• also performed other tests such as wayland-simple-egl and chromium to ensure GPU works

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• [ ] I have performed a self-review of my own code
• [ ] My changes generate no new warnings

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Walkthrough

Board configs for SK‑AM62B and SK‑AM64B were updated to declare SOC_ID and GPU/firmware/video-related settings; the K3 family source config (config/sources/families/k3.conf) was extended to initialize and append TI_PACKAGES (including SOC-specific firmware, optional GPU/video packages, and EXTRA_BOARD_PACKAGES). The ti-debpkgs extension gained two functions for pre-customize image service/user setup and post-install DKMS activation. A new emptty package was added with emptty.conf, a PAM config, and weston.ini. The common package list added vim.

Estimated code review effort

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Possibly related PRs

• armbian/build#8305 — Modifies TI package handling and the ti-debpkgs extension; strongly overlaps with changes to k3 family config, board configs, and extensions/ti-debpkgs.sh.

Suggested reviewers

• glneo
• igorpecovnik
• leggewie

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[glneo]

Starting Weston as a root systemd service was a hack we did for our Yocto SDK distro, it was not correct and we are switching to using a proper weston user and launching with a login-manager (Emptty). For Armbian you should do the same or re-use GDM or similar default manager to launch a weston session.

[jsuhaas22]

@glneo Understood. I am going with emptty, and got it working using the upstream emptty package. Do we want auto-login into weston like in our Yocto-based SDK, or do we want to show the username/password screen? I am wondering since the first boot takes you through the armbian-firstlogin script setup anyway.

For now, I have gone with auto-login. If you think the alternative is better, I will update the PR.

[jsuhaas22]

For now, based on internal discussions, I have removed the weston and emptty. It was decided that we should explore ways to introduce these as a separate desktop environment or something similar.

So from now, this PR is for adding extra packages related to vim, firmware, kernel modules etc.

Therefore I have also edited the PR heading.

[glneo]

For now, based on internal discussions, I have removed the weston and emptty. It was decided that we should explore ways to introduce these as a separate desktop environment or something similar.

So from now, this PR is for adding extra packages related to vim, firmware, kernel modules etc.

Therefore I have also edited the PR heading.

The first patch still includes make weston the OOB in the commit message, remove that.