Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio support on MicroZed

[Philip Balister]

On 08/26/2014 02:31 PM, Nowlan, Sean wrote:
> 
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Tom Rondeau
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:10 AM
> To: Stephen Harrison
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio support on MicroZed
> 
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Stephen Harrison 
> <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
> 
> Is the Linaro distribution possible on MicroZed? I spent a long time trying 
> to get OpenEmbedded to happen with no success. The Linaro distribution was a 
> snap and I got GNURadio running no problem on the ZedBoard.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> For reference on getting OE working, see our Embedded page:
> 
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Embedded
> 
> Though I can't speak directly to the MicroZed.
> 
> Tom
> 
> Thanks, all, for the pointers. I’ll see if I can get MicroZed boot files to 
> launch into the GNU Radio rootfs image.

Be careful what branch of meta-xilinx-community you use. If it is
useful, I can look at adding it to the repo manifest to try and keep
things in sync.

Philip

> 
> Thanks,
> Sean
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, West, Nathan 
> <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Nowlan, Sean
> <address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>> I'm not the world's foremost expert in OpenEmbedded (read: person with
>> nearly no knowledge of how to use it). I'd like to get GNU Radio working on
>> a MicroZed. Unfortunately that board is not among the boards supported as
>> mentioned here: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq
>> Also, I don't necessarily need John Pendlum's changes to add userspace
>> support for interfacing with the FPGA. I just want to get the ARM running
>> GNU Radio.
>>
>>
>> The meta-xilinx-community repo claims to support a BSP and build for
>> MicroZed:
>> http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/meta-xilinx-community/about/  How
>> do I go about merging these two things together? I've taken my best guess as
>> to how to setup a configuration with Poky:
>>
>>
>> Build Configuration:
>> BB_VERSION        = "1.23.1"
>> BUILD_SYS         = "x86_64-linux"
>> NATIVELSBSTRING   = "Ubuntu-13.10"
>> TARGET_SYS        = "arm-poky-linux-gnueabi"
>> MACHINE           = "microzed-zynq7"
>> DISTRO            = "poky"
>> DISTRO_VERSION    = "1.6+snapshot-20140822"
>> TUNE_FEATURES     = " arm armv7a vfp neon zynq"
>> TARGET_FPU        = "vfp-neon"
>> meta
>> meta-yocto
>> meta-yocto-bsp    = "master:34436672f3ef4915e7526770a0fa8dcff328f93d"
>> meta-xilinx       = "master:83bf54daeaca21879290bf444876f9949b117454"
>> meta-xilinx-community = "master:a093287b81d446435d44cf238a9240782a80e1b7"
>> meta-oe
>> meta-networking
>> meta-filesystems  = "master:8f637f9bbcdda1dc7a1998d243708c727aa6016f"
>> meta-sdr          = "master:21e2722a5e6671fd98268241f216e087f279566d"
>>
>> Am I on the right track here? It's still fetching/building/etc. I'm not too
>> confident it will actually work, since I don't really know what I'm doing.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sean
>>
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> The embedded page might be more useful:
> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/embedded Especially
> check out the link to SDKs. There's a rootfs and modules built for a
> zedboard, all you'll need are device specific boot files. Just create
> the right partitions on your card and the provided rootfs and modules
> should be sufficient. (extract the rootfs to the / mounted partition
> on the SD card). Hopefully that can get you booting
> 
> Nathan
> 
> 
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