Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Building BOOT.BIN for Zedboard to use with gnuradio-dev-image

[Nowlan, Sean]

>On 12/09/2014 12:16 PM, Nick Foster wrote:
>> A number of different distributions include a u-boot.elf suitable for 
>> the Zedboard. I'm not a linux boot expert, but u-boot seems pretty 
>> platform-agnostic when paired with a suitable FSBL.

A lot of u-boots I've found point to a ramdisk filesystem instead of a 
partition.

>> 
>> The images here include a u-boot.elf that works with Zedboard, ZC702, 
>> ZC706, etc.
>> http://wiki.analog.com/resources/tools-software/linux-software/zynq_im
>> ages
>> 
>> Email me directly and I'll just send you the .elf if you're interested.

>A pox on people using ancient stuff.
>I think Sean wants to load an fpga image early in the boot process.

Not trying to do anything fancy; just trying to reproduce Jonathan Pendlum's 
FFT filter example, which was written back when that ancient stuff was current. 
I think it'd be good for that to be updated for people who want to run GNU 
Radio on Zynq. I know RFNoC will change how that's done with E310, but we don't 
need RFNoC for MicroZed/ZedBoard/ZC70x. I'm happy to help with the writeup 
if/when I figure all this out.

>Try the image I posted a few days ago and drop a file called fpga.bin in the 
>FAT partition. U-boot SPL will load that fpga.bin file then load u-boot.
>You can now build the fsbl directly from u-boot but dropping the ps7* files in 
>the right place. (See the OE recipe for how that is done there, and copy if 
>you are building u-boot from Xilinx git)

I'll try your newer image.

>My understanding is the current release of Xilinx tools will give you
>ps7 files with a license that is compatible with the GPL.

>Philip

>> 
>> --n
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Nowlan, Sean 
>> <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>  I'd like to use the gnuradio openembedded SDK and image that are 
>>> available here [1] to reproduce the work here [2] without building my 
>>> own openembedded image. I'm having trouble getting a working boot.bin 
>>> for Zedboard without doing a full openembedded build. I know that 
>>> there are licensing issues that may prohibit distributing an FSBL 
>>> file, but I've gone ahead and done that using the directions in [2]. 
>>> I'd like to compile boot.bin with the zynq_fsbl.bit I created with 
>>> Xilinx 14.6, uImage, and the device tree binary distributed in [1]. 
>>> However, in order to use the build script in zynq-acp, I need 
>>> u-boot.elf, and [1] only provides u-boot.bin. Is there another way to 
>>> compile these without doing a full openembedded build?
.>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1]          http://gnuradio.org/data/sdk/zedboard_armv7a-sf-vfp-neon/
>>>
>>> [2]          http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
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