Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Booting Zynq/Gnuradio

[Jan Schiefer]

HI Ivan,

> I've been working through the wiki as well.  In my setup I had to also
> replace the FSBL with the default Xilinx one to get the system to boot
> (ZC702 eval board).  If you stop u-boot from autobooting you can go in and
> change the environment variables (printenv, setenv) and when you have
> everything setup you can 'saveenv' and the state will be saved to flash.
>
> Now the system boots smoothly.  Since I had some issues with the booting
> process I'm not sure if the system.bit file is loaded properly.  To make
> sure, I load the bit file using /dev/xdevcfg (have to mknod, convert .bit
> to .bin, etc.).  Then I insmod the user_peripheral.ko (had to copy it into
> /lib/modules/ for insmod to find it).

I was wondering how one would load a bit file after booting, so this
definitely a good tip. I will try that out once I get a little further
along.

Meanwhile I'll figure out the right boot environment variables for my
Zedboard next.

Thanks,
   Jan