Category: Xilinx

Basically I needed to load Ubuntu 16.04 on a SBC ARMv7. I listed down the pages I used for references.

Links for custom hdf for fpgma

• http://www.fpgadeveloper.com/2015/12/using-axi-ethernet-subsystem-and-gmii-to-rgmii-in-a-multi-port-ethernet-design.html

Links for kernel configuration

• https://medium.com/developments-and-implementations-on-zynq-7000-ap/install-ubuntu-16-04-lts-on-zynq-zc702-using-petalinux-2016-4-e1da902eaff7
• http://www.fpgadeveloper.com/2016/05/multi-port-ethernet-in-petalinux.html

Links that I used to troubleshoot:

axi timer bug

• https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Embedded-Development-Tools/Axi-Timer-Bug-DeviceTreeGeneration-in-Vivavdo-Petalinux-2017-4/td-p/844823

Booti issue

• https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Embedded-Linux/Zedboard-Unknown-command-booti-PetaLinux/td-p/899108

Xilinx’s PetaLinux installation guide doesn’t give a simple one liner to install all of its dependencies. So I wrote down what I did.

Tried and tested on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit (under non-root user)

Key Notes:

1. Installation takes about 15 minutes on a ssd due to the extraction and copying of data
2. Takes up about 5 GB of space.
3. Remember to use a non root user or else the installer will not continue and you have to restart from scratch

Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib build-essential libsdl1.2-dev libglib2.0-dev python2.7 tofrodos gawk xvfb gcc-4.8 g++-4.8 git make net-tools libncurses5-dev tftpd zlib1g-dev libssl-dev flex bison libselinux1 gpg wget diffstat chrpath socat xterm autoconf libtool tar unzip texinfo zlib1g:i386 libsdl1.2-dev libglib2.0-dev

Installation:

mkdir -p /opt/pkg/petalinux/2019.2
sudo chmod 755 -R /opt
sudo chown user:user -R /opt
./petalinux-v2019.1-final-installer.run /opt/pkg/petalinux/2019.2
export PATH="/opt/pkg/petalinux/2019.2/tools/common/petalinux/bin/:$PATH"
source /opt/pkg/petalinux/2019.2/settings.sh

References:

• https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2018_3/ug1144-petalinux-tools-reference-guide.pdf