Building Xilinx based systems with meta-xilinx

This repository provides git submodules to setup the OpenEmbedded build system with meta-xilinx to build images for Xilnx development boards and some vendor boards.

OpenEmbedded allows the creation of custom linux distributions for embedded systems. It is a collection of git repositories known as layers each of which provides recipes to build software packages as well as configuration information.

Information about the branch names is available at https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Releases.

Getting Started

1. Clone the git repository:

   $ git clone https://github.com/balister/xilinx-minimal.git

2. Check out the appropriate branch (default is OK for now):

   $ cd xilinx-minimal

3. Update the submodules (meta-xilinx also has a submodule):

   $ git submodule update --init --recursive

4. Initialize the build system:

5. For a supported host distro

   $ TEMPLATECONF=`pwd`/meta-xilinx-minimal/conf/templates/default source ./openembedded-core/oe-init-build-env ./build ./bitbake

6. For an unsupported host distro, use pyrex to containerize the build:

   $ source pyrex.source

   $ TEMPLATECONF=`pwd`/meta-xilinx-minimal/conf/templates/default source pyrex-init-build-env

7. Select the MACHINE to build for:

   $ export MACHINE=zynqmp-zcu104-sdt-full (default from local.conf)

8. Build an image:

   $ bitbake core-image-minimal

9. Build an sdk:

   $ bitbake -c populate_sdk core-image-minimal