[meta-xilinx] what are the canonical xilinx mailing lists/repos these days?

[Michael Rissi]

Dear all,
Just hooking up on the topic: For the zedboard, I tried out the official
meta-xilinx layer, as well as meta-zynq-milo.
Both worked great. meta-zynq-milo, however, has 2 main features I liked a
lot which are not in meta-xilinx:
- One can easily change the device where the root filesystem is located by
changing the file autorun.scr. This allows to easily switch from rootfs
over nfs  to e.g. the rootfs on the second partition of the sd card. For
meta-xilinx, this is much harder to change and needed quite some recipe
editing from my side. The default in meta-xilinx is a ram disk as rootfs,
limited to some 12MB.
- A very nice feature is also the automatic creation of the BOOT.bin file
using the xilinx bootgen in meta-zynq-milo.

Thus I wondered if there is any change that meta-zynq-milo and meta-xilinx
might be merged, or that at least some features from meta-zynq-milo are
added to meta-xilinx? I am also willing to contribute and to test if needed.

Anyways, thanks a lot for your efforts, it's great to be able to use
openembedded to create images for the zynq!

Best regards,
Michael Rissi



On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> On Aug 3, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> wrote:
>
> >  i can see the meta-xilinx layer that is now the official support
> > layer from xilinx (i'm assuming it's mirrored equally at both github
> > and yoctoproject.org, yes?). so, obviously, that's one layer i'll stay
> > on top of.
> >
> >  i see the new meta-xilinx-community layer, maintained by elvis
> > dowson and adrian alonso (which used to be "meta-xilinx"). is there
> > any official or unofficial relationship between the two layers?
> >
> >  and layers.openembedded.org still lists the layers meta-zynq and
> > meta-zynq-milo. so assuming i don't want to track 4 xilinx-related
> > layers, can i assume that i can focus on the official xilinx layer for
> > now? open to suggestions.
>
> You should use the meta-xilinx layer that is officially supported by
> Xilinx for the zedboard.
>
> The meta-xilinx-community layer is a layer for all the Xilinx legacy boards
> (e.g. the ones based on the Virtex-5, e.g. ML507) and other manufacturer
> boards based on Xilinx FPGAs. This layer was renamed to -community
> to avoid confusion as to which one was being officially supported by
> Xilinx.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Elvis Dowson
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