Scroll down for info on the commit Jonathon mentioned. I forgot to cc the list on the reply :)
Philip -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Zync: thanks for the excellent tutorial Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:54:48 -0500 From: Philip Balister <phi...@balister.org> To: Jean-Michel FRIEDT <jean-michel.fri...@femto-st.fr> On 01/01/2014 01:06 PM, Jean-Michel FRIEDT wrote: > Damn I missed all these replies to my initial post due to not being > familiar > with our webmail interface and not having access to the lab for the last > 8 days. I hope I have not done anything stupid by not taking into account > the comment about having to wait for the OE update: I have tried to add my > own comments to the Zynq wiki page but not being familiar at all with > OE, some > of these comments might be overly naive (I believe not wrong, since > these are > the steps I took to get to the point of compiling the FIR on FPGA example). > Some knowledgeable person should definitely review these updates to the > wiki > page. > > At the moment, I am stuck with two issues: > 1/ eth0 will not start when booting linux on the Zynq with the current > kernel, > so no git/opkg install from the web at the moment (makes the software > update a > bit complex by keeping on putting the SD card back in the PC connected > to the > internet) I think this is the phy address in the device tree file issue. See: https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/commit/a573551a42e2f4c8efa82db90f938b10e62a3971 Philip > 2/ cmake does not find gnuradio-runtime: I am pretty sure this is an issue > with the outdated FindGnuradioRuntime.module issue but I have not yet > managed > to get gr_modtool to run ... still working on it. > > I assume my addition to the wiki on the installation of cmake is not > erroneous, > but should be checked as well. > > JM > >> On 12/27/2013 03:38 AM, Vanush Vaswani wrote: >>> Is there any difference in using this stack compared to say, the >>> Ubuntu distribution available on www.armhf.com, and compiling gnuradio >>> from source? >> >> Compiling GNU Radio from source on an embedded board takes much longer >> than using a cross compiler. Also, during the compile on a low memory >> embedded board, parts of the com[ile takes lots of memory and you may >> need to nurse the build during this part of the build. >> >> My i7 builds gnuradio loads faster than even a quad A15. >> >> Both approaches work, I just do not like to wait :) >> >> Philip >> >>> >>> Vanush >>> >>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Philip Balister >>> <phi...@balister.org> wrote: >>>> On 12/26/2013 02:28 AM, Jean-Michel FRIEDT wrote: >>>>> I have used the opportunity of the more relaxed days of this Christmas >>>>> period to try and run the tutorial at >>>>> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq >>>> >>>> We need to update the OE section of this page to use: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/balister/oe-gnuradio-manifest >>>> >>>> for managing the OE layers. I'd suggest not starting a new checkout if >>>> you have something working until after I update UHD to 3.6.2 though :) >>>> >>>> Also, https://github.com/balister/meta-sdr/wiki/CrossCompile has >>>> instructions for cross compiling GNU Radio and testing the result. We >>>> need to verify this approach works for OOT module development also. >>>> >>>> Merry Christmas, >>>> >>>> Philip >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Wonderful page, works nearly perfectly, thanks a lot. >>>>> >>>>> A few minor comments to the author or useful to other readers of the >>>>> mailing >>>>> list: >>>>> 1/ using a brand new Debian/testing installation, it seems that the >>>>> latest >>>>> version of tar will not accept both -c and -s options in its >>>>> command line. >>>>> I hence edited all entries of openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/ and >>>>> replaced >>>>> the -ps option of tar with -p. Same for the meta/classes entries. >>>>> Apparently >>>>> this has been patched in the latest release of openembedded, but >>>>> indeed the >>>>> zync script will not run out of the box on the latest openembedded >>>>> release >>>>> and, as advised on the web page, I git commited against a given older >>>>> release, >>>>> 2/ the note about Xilinx tools to Ubuntu users concerning gmake should >>>>> be in >>>>> bold, huge size, blinking fonts ;) I spent a while being concerned >>>>> about >>>>> licensing issues when the FPGA synthesis tool would not run. No >>>>> seriously, just >>>>> learning to read did the trick. As a side note, it all ran smoothly >>>>> with >>>>> the >>>>> 14.7 release of ISE on a 32-bit x86 architecture. I believe there is a >>>>> minor >>>>> trivial error in the PATH to ISE in which xtclsh should not be >>>>> included in >>>>> the PATH definition. >>>>> >>>>> Anyway, thanks for the tutorial, just need to now understand what I >>>>> did, >>>>> but >>>>> at least the whole thing is running smoothly. >>>>> >>>>> Best wishes for the new year, JM >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>> >>> >> > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
