Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Zync: thanks for the excellent tutorial

[Vanush Vaswani]

Is there any difference in using this stack compared to say, the
Ubuntu distribution available on www.armhf.com, and compiling gnuradio
from source?

Vanush

On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Philip Balister <address@hidden> 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
>>
>
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