Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Zync: thanks for the excellent tutorial

[Jean-Michel FRIEDT]

Damn I missed all these replies to my initial post due to not being familiar
with our webmail interface and not having access to the lab for the last
8 days. I hope I have not done anything stupid by not taking into account
the comment about having to wait for the OE update: I have tried to add my
own comments to the Zynq wiki page but not being familiar at all with OE, some
of these comments might be overly naive (I believe not wrong, since these are
the steps I took to get to the point of compiling the FIR on FPGA example).
Some knowledgeable person should definitely review these updates to the wiki
page.

At the moment, I am stuck with two issues:
1/ eth0 will not start when booting linux on the Zynq with the current kernel,
so no git/opkg install from the web at the moment (makes the software update a
bit complex by keeping on putting the SD card back in the PC connected to the
internet)
2/ cmake does not find gnuradio-runtime: I am pretty sure this is an issue
with the outdated FindGnuradioRuntime.module issue but I have not yet managed
to get gr_modtool to run ... still working on it.

I assume my addition to the wiki on the installation of cmake is not  
erroneous,
but should be checked as well.

JM

> On 12/27/2013 03:38 AM, Vanush Vaswani wrote:
> > Is there any difference in using this stack compared to say, the
> > Ubuntu distribution available on www.armhf.com, and compiling gnuradio
> > from source?
>
> Compiling GNU Radio from source on an embedded board takes much longer
> than using a cross compiler. Also, during the compile on a low memory
> embedded board, parts of the com[ile takes lots of memory and you may
> need to nurse the build during this part of the build.
>
> My i7 builds gnuradio loads faster than even a quad A15.
>
> Both approaches work, I just do not like to wait :)
>
> Philip
>
> > Vanush
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Philip Balister  
> > <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > On 12/26/2013 02:28 AM, Jean-Michel FRIEDT wrote:
> > > > I have used the opportunity of the more relaxed days of this Christmas
> > > > period to try and run the tutorial at
> > > > http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq
> > >
> > > We need to update the OE section of this page to use:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/balister/oe-gnuradio-manifest
> > >
> > > for managing the OE layers. I'd suggest not starting a new checkout if
> > > you have something working until after I update UHD to 3.6.2 though :)
> > >
> > > Also, https://github.com/balister/meta-sdr/wiki/CrossCompile has
> > > instructions for cross compiling GNU Radio and testing the result. We
> > > need to verify this approach works for OOT module development also.
> > >
> > > Merry Christmas,
> > >
> > > Philip
> > >
> > > > Wonderful page, works nearly perfectly, thanks a lot.
> > > >
> > > > A few minor comments to the author or useful to other readers of the
> > > > mailing
> > > > list:
> > > > 1/ using a brand new Debian/testing installation, it seems that the latest
> > > > version of tar will not accept both -c and -s options in its command line.
> > > > I hence edited all entries of openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/ and replaced
> > > > the -ps option of tar with -p. Same for the meta/classes entries.
> > > > Apparently
> > > > this has been patched in the latest release of openembedded, but  
> > > > indeed the
> > > > zync script will not run out of the box on the latest openembedded release
> > > > and, as advised on the web page, I git commited against a given older
> > > > release,
> > > > 2/ the note about Xilinx tools to Ubuntu users concerning gmake should
> > > > be in
> > > > bold, huge size, blinking fonts ;)  I spent a while being concerned about
> > > > licensing issues when the FPGA synthesis tool would not run. No
> > > > seriously, just
> > > > learning to read did the trick. As a side note, it all ran smoothly with
> > > > the
> > > > 14.7 release of ISE on a 32-bit x86 architecture. I believe there is a
> > > > minor
> > > > trivial error in the PATH to ISE in which xtclsh should not be included in
> > > > the PATH definition.
> > > >
> > > > Anyway, thanks for the tutorial, just need to now understand what I did,
> > > > but
> > > > at least the whole thing is running smoothly.
> > > >
> > > > Best wishes for the new year, JM
> > >
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JM Friedt, FEMTO-ST Time & Frequency/SENSeOR, 32 av. observatoire,  
25044 Besancon, France

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