Embedded Linux Useful Resources

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Embedded Linux forum board discusses on Petalinux, Yocto targeting Xilinx Platforms, Xilinx Open Source Components and Commercial Linux from Xilinx Ecosystem vendors.

This topic gives you the resources available from Xilinx which are of the helpful.

If you can’t find your answers in the below existing documentation sources, always feel free to post your question on this Forum’s page.

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User Guides

Xilinx Provides the below user guides for Embedded Linux development targeting the Xilinx platforms

1. UG1144: PetaLinux Tools Documentation Reference Guide (LINK)
2. UG1157: PetaLinux Command Line Reference (LINK)
3. UG1169: Xilinx QEMU User Guide (LINK)
4. UG1137: Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC Software Developer Guide (LINK)
5. UG1186: Libmetal and OpenAMP User Guide (LINK)

NOTE: Please note that we have a separate board to discuss OpenAMP queries, don’t post any of the AMP queries in embedded linux board

Knowledge Base – Petalinux/Yocto

This section introduces to the Xilinx wiki links relevant to Embedded Linux development

1. Building Yocto image for Xilinx’s ZCU102 board (LINK)
2. Building Open Source Xilinx components (LINK)
3. Tips related to Yocto layers and how Yocto works under Petalinux including applying patches within petalinux project  (LINK)
4. Building Device tree targeting Xilinx platforms (LINK)
5. Debugging Devicetree Issues and creating Petalinux Patches (LINK)
6. Getting Ubuntu desktop up and running on ZCU102 (LINK)
7. Xilinx’s Linux driver’s information (LINK)
8. Debugging Linux application in SDK targetting Zynq Ultrascale (LINK)

Knowledge Base – QEMU/XEN

1. Overview on Xilinx QEMU (LINK)
2. Booting kernel with Xilinx QEMU using emulated SD and QSPI flash (LINK)
3. Overview on XEN Hypervisor (LINK)
4. Building XEN (LINK)

Petalinux – Known Issues/Answer Records

Xilinx publishes answer record for every release of the tool which covers the features and known issues. As an example, here are the release notes for most recent two releases

1. PetaLinux 2018.3 - Product Update Release Notes and Known Issues (LINK)
2. PetaLinux 2019.1 - Product Update Release Notes and Known Issues (LINK)