Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNU Radio on Zedboard

[Philip Balister]

On 03/31/2015 11:39 AM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
> Philip,
> 
> I got it working. For some reason if I use *Ubuntu's Archive Manager* on my
> laptop to uncompress the .xz file, it doesn't work!
> 
> I had to uncompress it by this command: *unxz -d
> sdimage-8G-zedboard.direct.xz* in order to get it work.
> 
> Now I have a linux running on the zedboard with the gnu-radio. But I can't
> get the VGA to work - I have to use UART to connect to the linux - I saw it
> has *startx* , is there any way for me to get the VGA working?

I'd ask on the meta-xilinx list. We use hte BSP from Xilinx, which I do
not think has support for the video display. For that you need a special
driver (and I believe you need some stuff in the fpga). The build we
have doesn't depend on anything loaded in the fpga.

Philip

> 
> Thank you,
> Alireza
> 
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Philip Balister <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/19/2015 10:48 AM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
>>> Here are the files I have in the FAT partition (boot):
>>>
>>> 1- boot.bin
>>> 2- u-boot.img
>>> 3- uEnv.txt
>>> 4- uImage
>>> 5- zc702-zynq7.dtb
>>>
>>> * I used this image: *sdimage-8G-zc702.direct*
>>
>> So this all looks correct. When you put the card in the PC both the FAT
>> and roofs partitions are mounted OK? You did use an 8G card?
>>
>> I'm not sure what to say at this point. Everything looks OK. I am
>> traveling and away from borads for a few weeks.
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:41 AM, Philip Balister <address@hidden>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 03/18/2015 10:44 PM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
>>>>> Philip,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for letting me using your images. I tried both of them with
>>>> the *dd
>>>>> *command, it took me around 2000 seconds (30 mins) each and after using
>>>>> them on the board I get the following message via the UART:
>>>>>
>>>>> *U-Boot SPL 2014.01 (Jan 09 2015 - 20:24:45)*
>>>>> *mmc boot*
>>>>> *reading fpga.bin*
>>>>> *spl: error reding image fpga.bin, err - -1*
>>>>> *reading system.dtb*
>>>>> *spl: error reading image system.dtb, err - -1*
>>>>> *reading u-boot.img*
>>>>> *spl: error reading image u-boot.img, err - -1*
>>>>> *### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###*
>>>>
>>>> So the first stage boot loader is running, which is good.
>>>>
>>>> It looks for a couple of files which should be there, which is OK.
>>>> (fpga.bin and system.dtb)
>>>>
>>>> Then it tries to load u-boot.img which it doesn't find. This is bad.
>>>>
>>>> Can you put the card in a PC and send the list of file in the FAT
>>>> partition?
>>>>
>>>> Philip
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I got the above message for sdimage-8G-zc702.direct. I get no message
>> for
>>>>> the other image.
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Philip Balister <address@hidden
>>>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 03/13/2015 01:17 PM, Alireza Khodamoradi wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm going through the instructions from here:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I should go over those carefully, but in the mentime I have some
>> images
>>>>>> built for the zedbaord here:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yfbpj63pcenqatr/AAAt0s3xFXs47I7q5pNopheHa?dl=0
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Take the zedboard one, uncompress it and write it to an sd card. Be
>> sure
>>>>>> to unmount (not eject) the sd card and run:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> sudo dd if=sdimage-8G-zedboard.direct of=/dev/sdX
>>>>>>
>>>>>> where sdx is the device the sd card is on.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Philip
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> to get a working image with gnu radio for my zedboard.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unfortunately I can't get the board to boot with this image. I was
>>>>>>> wondering if someone can help me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> what I tried so far ( all failed - can't boot from the SDCard):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - default settings in the instructions
>>>>>>> - renaming u-boot.bin to boot.bin
>>>>>>> - renaming u-boot.bin to BOOT.BIN
>>>>>>> - renaming uImage--zedboard-zynq7.dtb to devicetree.dtb
>>>>>>> - I tried command line as well as gparted gui.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> what I checked:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> - download a linux from XillyBus and boot the board with SDCard ->
>>>> works
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> v/r
>>>>>>> Alireza
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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