[meta-xilinx] Bitstream/Boot.bin/etc - Providers/Virtual targets

[Alan DuBoff]

On Wed, February 19, 2014 11:54 am, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> I too have been using Ubuntu for a while now, but bought a
> RHEL 6.5 Workstation subscription, to try and get Vivado 2013.2 to
> perform a distributed build.

OUCH!

> I think buying RHEL-6.5 subscription is a waste, and I should have
> tried CentOS instead. So, if Fedora doesn’t work, try running the
> Xilinx Vivado tools on CentOS instead.

If it worked it wouldn't be a waste. I figure it doesn't matter since Yocto is
testing on Ubuntu 12.04 and 13.10 per the comments in the commit logs. As I
said, if it would work it could be worth buying a license, even if to run it
in a VM to build running on Ubuntu...

I have used 13.04 on a different zynq project I worked on last year, and no
real issues building. I'm in a holding pattern with 13.10 and will move to
14.04 when it comes out.

> There is also shell script issues to consider (bashism, etc), between
> distros.

One of the things that I have always liked about Debian and it's offspring’s
was the fact that it was always more simular to SYSV, so the init scripts were
setup like UNIX, rather than the sysconfig that RH did use (not sure if they
still do).

For my taste, Debian did it right.

All that said, the Xilinx Vivado tools are a real pile of crap, IMO. I'm not
talking just on Linux, the FPGA programmer I was working with on my last zynq
project only used Windows and they used to crap out on him all the time also.
Either they hang and freeze the system or segfault and dump you out to a
prompt in the middle of writing the flash or creating the boot.bin...and I see
the addition of FPGAs being a huge advantage in today's embedded market.

Anyone used the Altera chipset with FPGA? Is the development environment any
better?

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Cheers,
Alan