Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on Zedboard

[Philip Balister]

On 04/01/2015 04:53 PM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
> Thank you Philip!
> 
> I also don't have the audio jack working. Should I ask it on the
> meta-xilinx list?

Bug them. It is also likely a driver issue. My understanding is there
are a bunch of analog devices parts on the board that they wrote drivers
for. I'm not sure if those drivers made it into upstream Linux, and then
you have the issue of the best kernel for our purposes is about 3.14.

Philip

> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Philip Balister <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/31/2015 11:39 AM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
>>> Philip,
>>>
>>> I got it working. For some reason if I use *Ubuntu's Archive Manager* on
>> my
>>> laptop to uncompress the .xz file, it doesn't work!
>>>
>>> I had to uncompress it by this command: *unxz -d
>>> sdimage-8G-zedboard.direct.xz* in order to get it work.
>>>
>>> Now I have a linux running on the zedboard with the gnu-radio. But I
>> can't
>>> get the VGA to work - I have to use UART to connect to the linux - I saw
>> it
>>> has *startx* , is there any way for me to get the VGA working?
>>
>> I'd ask on the meta-xilinx list. We use hte BSP from Xilinx, which I do
>> not think has support for the video display. For that you need a special
>> driver (and I believe you need some stuff in the fpga). The build we
>> have doesn't depend on anything loaded in the fpga.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Alireza
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Philip Balister <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/19/2015 10:48 AM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
>>>>> Here are the files I have in the FAT partition (boot):
>>>>>
>>>>> 1- boot.bin
>>>>> 2- u-boot.img
>>>>> 3- uEnv.txt
>>>>> 4- uImage
>>>>> 5- zc702-zynq7.dtb
>>>>>
>>>>> * I used this image: *sdimage-8G-zc702.direct*
>>>>
>>>> So this all looks correct. When you put the card in the PC both the FAT
>>>> and roofs partitions are mounted OK? You did use an 8G card?
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what to say at this point. Everything looks OK. I am
>>>> traveling and away from borads for a few weeks.
>>>>
>>>> Philip
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Philip Balister <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 03/18/2015 10:44 PM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
>>>>>>> Philip,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for letting me using your images. I tried both of them with
>>>>>> the *dd
>>>>>>> *command, it took me around 2000 seconds (30 mins) each and after
>> using
>>>>>>> them on the board I get the following message via the UART:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *U-Boot SPL 2014.01 (Jan 09 2015 - 20:24:45)*
>>>>>>> *mmc boot*
>>>>>>> *reading fpga.bin*
>>>>>>> *spl: error reding image fpga.bin, err - -1*
>>>>>>> *reading system.dtb*
>>>>>>> *spl: error reading image system.dtb, err - -1*
>>>>>>> *reading u-boot.img*
>>>>>>> *spl: error reading image u-boot.img, err - -1*
>>>>>>> *### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So the first stage boot loader is running, which is good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It looks for a couple of files which should be there, which is OK.
>>>>>> (fpga.bin and system.dtb)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then it tries to load u-boot.img which it doesn't find. This is bad.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you put the card in a PC and send the list of file in the FAT
>>>>>> partition?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Philip
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I got the above message for sdimage-8G-zc702.direct. I get no message
>>>> for
>>>>>>> the other image.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Philip Balister <
>> address@hidden
>>>>>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 03/13/2015 01:17 PM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm going through the instructions from here:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I should go over those carefully, but in the mentime I have some
>>>> images
>>>>>>>> built for the zedbaord here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yfbpj63pcenqatr/AAAt0s3xFXs47I7q5pNopheHa?dl=0
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Take the zedboard one, uncompress it and write it to an sd card. Be
>>>> sure
>>>>>>>> to unmount (not eject) the sd card and run:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> sudo dd if=sdimage-8G-zedboard.direct of=/dev/sdX
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> where sdx is the device the sd card is on.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Philip
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> to get a working image with gnu radio for my zedboard.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Unfortunately I can't get the board to boot with this image. I was
>>>>>>>>> wondering if someone can help me.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> what I tried so far ( all failed - can't boot from the SDCard):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - default settings in the instructions
>>>>>>>>> - renaming u-boot.bin to boot.bin
>>>>>>>>> - renaming u-boot.bin to BOOT.BIN
>>>>>>>>> - renaming uImage--zedboard-zynq7.dtb to devicetree.dtb
>>>>>>>>> - I tried command line as well as gparted gui.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> what I checked:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - download a linux from XillyBus and boot the board with SDCard ->
>>>>>> works
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> v/r
>>>>>>>>> Alireza
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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