Thanks! All the links are very helpful. I'm quite familiar with the Altera side of the SoC+FPGA stuff since I work with that at my day job, but I'm not nearly as familiar with the Zynq.
On 1/7/2018 12:21 AM, automata wrote: > Hi Charles, > > I managed to get machinekit running on the Zed board and Zturn board. > > I used instructions on this site to get petalinux kernel loaded. > https://medium.com/developments-and-implementations-on-zynq-7000-ap/install-ubuntu-16-04-lts-on-zynq-zc702-using-petalinux-2016-4-e1da902eaff7 > > I used mksocfpga repo from Cameroon: https://github.com/cmcquinn/mksocfpga > As his scripts were Vivado version independent (or atleast worked for > Vivado version 2017.2). The mksocfpga is stuck on vivado 2015.4 and I could > only be compiled on the docker image > > I also followed these instructions from Xilinx to make sure I had an RT > kernel with petalinux: https://pastebin.com/Pk04f5At > > I also used a rootfs from rcn: https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2017-10-12/elinux/ > https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2017-10-12/elinux/debian-9.2-console-armhf-2017-10-12.tar.xz > > Then it was putting the petalinux generated files: BOOT.BIN, image.ub and > system.dtb into a boot partition on SD card. Copying the rootfs on the SD > card rootfs partition. > Instructions for doing this are on : > https://medium.com/developments-and-implementations-on-zynq-7000-ap/install-ubuntu-16-04-lts-on-zynq-zc702-using-petalinux-2016-4-e1da902eaff7 > > Then download the machinekit source from the github repo. Install the > dependencies (there are a lot of those) and compile and launch machinekit. > > I do want to harmonize the above steps with the official machinekit > versions but I am not able to figure it out. > > Hope you can help with that part. > > Regards, > -automata. > > On Friday, December 22, 2017 at 7:15:37 AM UTC+5:30, Charles Steinkuehler > wrote: >> >> Anyone got a recipe or scripts for generating a working Zynq uSD image >> that includes Machinekit? I've got a (day-job) project that will be >> targeting a low-end Zynq board with HDMI in, and I'm thinking of using >> the Arty board: >> >> >> http://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists/ >> >> >> ...which has Arduino headers, meaning it would be pretty trivial to >> add some stepper driver to make a pan/tilt platform along with the >> video in. >> >> -- >> Charles Steinkuehler >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> > -- Charles Steinkuehler [email protected] -- website: http://www.machinekit.io blog: http://blog.machinekit.io github: https://github.com/machinekit --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Machinekit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/machinekit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
