[yocto] mail list for Xilinx Zynq platform?

[Philip Balister]

On 12/05/2012 06:46 AM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
> On 12-12-05 09:42 AM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:21 PM, Andreas Schweigstill
>> <andreas at schweigstill.de> wrote:
>>
>>> I have also tried to build a kernel and root filesystem for Zynq but
>>> the kernel
>>> gets stuck when booting, regardless if on the ZC702 board or on Qemu.
>>> I tried
>>> Poky denzil and Poky danny.
>>>
>>> Also the alternate meta-zynq layer from git.yoctoproject.org shows
>>> the same
>>> behaviour.
>>>
>>> These are the last console messages which I get:
>>> ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 01000000 ...
>>>    Image Name:   Linux-3.2.11-yocto-standard
>>>    Created:      2012-12-04  20:07:37 UTC
>>>    Image Type:   ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
>>>    Data Size:    2997472 Bytes = 2.9 MiB
>>>    Load Address: 00008000
>>>    Entry Point:  00008000
>>>    Verifying Checksum ... OK
>>> ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 01a80000
>>>    Booting using the fdt blob at 0x1a80000
>>>    Loading Device Tree to 0eff8000, end 0efff185 ... OK
>>>    Loading Kernel Image ... OK
>>> OK
>>>    Loading Device Tree to 0efed000, end 0eff7185 ... OK
>>>
>>> Starting kernel ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Instead of using Linux kernel version 3.5-xilinx I always get
>>> Linux-3.2.11-yocto-standard which is obviously missing the
>>> Zynq patches.
>>>
>>> meta-zynq/recipes-kernel-linux-zynq contains the following lines:
>>> LINUX_VERSION ?= "3.5"
>>> LINUX_VERSION_EXTENSION ?= "-xilinx"
>>>
>>> How can I force Yocto to build kernel 3.5-xilinx?
>>>
>>
>>  From you messages, I infer that you are using the meta-zynq layer
>> located here:
>>
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-zynq/
>>
>> For my builds, I used Philip Ballister's meta-zynq layer located here
>> for the simple reason that it uses xilinx git repository:
>>
>> https://github.com/balister/meta-zynq
>
> And in case anyone is wondering, efforts are (still) underway to
> get a single unified layer for this board (and others), but getting
> all the moving parts organized is taking a bit longer than expected
> or than we would like.

Thanks! Should we go ahead and set the list up so interested parties can 
start coordinating our existing work?

Philip

>
> Cheers,
>
> Bruce
>
>>
>> Also, try to ensure that you don't put both the meta-layers in your
>> bblayers.conf file
>> while building, and ensure that you set machine as follows in your
>> local.conf file
>>
>> MACHINE ?= "zynq-zc702"
>>
>> Do let me know how it goes!
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Elvis Dowson
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