DESK-XZ7-L/Development/Creating and building the Petalinux project

History
Issue Date	Notes
2022/11/18	DESK-XZ7-L-1.0.0-rc1 release
2023/01/22	DESK-XZ7-L-1.0.1 release

Creating and building the Petalinux project

Reference

• PetaLinux Tools Documentation Reference guide UG1144
• PetaLinux Tools DocumentationCommand Line Reference Guide UG1157

Petalinux build

To reproduce Petalinux build:

Clone the repository

git clone --recursive git@git.dave.eu:desk-xz-l/petalinux.git -b desk-xz7-l-1.0.1
cd petalinux

Setup the Petalinux environment

source /opt/Xilinx/petalinux/2021.2/settings.sh

Inizialize configuration file

You can use the following configuration file

Config file	Boot
config_bora	uSD and QSPI-NOR
config_borax	uSD and QSPI-NOR
config_boralite	uSD and QSPI-NOR
config_boralite_nand	NAND
config_boralite_nand_usd	uSD with NAND support

In order to select a configuration file use the following command

cp project-spec/configs/<configuration file> project-spec/configs/config

Update the hardware description

Hardware description come from to Vivado project. Vivado project is already cloned into Petalinux project.

To build Hardware description file, please see this page: Creating and building the Vivado project

You can use the following command to update the hardware description

petalinux-config --get-hw-description vivado/vivado/<path to .xsa>

When applying the hardware description, the standard menuconfig interface will popup: just save the current configuration to proceed. If you won't see menuconfig interface, perform the following command

petalinux-config --get-hw-description vivado/vivado/<path to .xsa> --silentconfig

Run the Petalinux build

To build petalinux-image-minimal use the following command

petalinux-build

If you want build dave-image-devel use the following command

petalinux-build -c dave-image-devel

For build only kernel use the following command

petalinux-build -c kernel

For build only U-Boot use the following command

petalinux-build -c u-boot

Generate BOOT.BIN

To generate BOOT.BIN artifact, perform the following command

petalinux-package --boot --u-boot --force

In case of boot from NAND for Boralite platform, please use the following command

petalinux-package --boot --u-boot --kernel --offset 0x1080000 --force

Generate wic image

In order to generate wic image to install on uSD perform the following command

petalinux-package --wic --bootfiles "BOOT.BIN boot.scr image.ub"

If you want to use dave-image-devel rootfs you have to perform the following command

petalinux-package --wic --bootfiles "BOOT.BIN boot.scr image.ub" --rootfs-file build/tmp/deploy/images/zynq-generic/dave-image-devel-zynq-generic.tar.gz

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