[meta-xilinx] Fwd: toolchain

[Elvis Dowson]

Hi Edward,

On Jan 5, 2014, at 20:16, Edward Vidal <vidal.develone at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am currently working with the zedboard using a rootfs generated with a dylan branch of yocto (gsl, gnuplot, gnuradio, java, vlc, v4l-utils, and openCV with C920 camera).  My zImage and devicetree.dtb were built with yocto sdk.  My BOOT.BIN (FSBL system.bit and u-boot) were built with 14.4 of Xilinx Tools.  This requires dual booting a CentOS 6.4 x86_64 (Xilinx Tools) and Fedora19 x86_64 (Yocto).  I have not been able to run Yocto on CentOS since the need for higher version of python.  
> 
> Is it possible to generate a BOOT.BIN with the files generated with Yocto?   
> 
> This requires 2 toolchains.  I was checking the difference between the 2 see the attached files. 
> Should the difference between the toolchains be of concern going forward?  
> 
> My Xilinx tools are node locked and I can only use on a single system.
> Is there a method to run Yocto on CentOS6.4 x86_64?
> Any and all help will be appreciated.

Why don’t you shift to Ubuntu-12.04 or 12.10 64-bit? I use ISE-14.7 and Vivado-2013.2 / 2013.4 on Ubuntu-12.10 64-bit, along with Yocto, and everything builds just fine.

The only caveat is that distributed builds do not work under Ubuntu (i.e. spread the synthesis and implementation tasks over multiple hosts).

I can send across a technote for installing a Yocto/Xilinx development environment for Ubuntu-12.10 64-bit, if you want, to save you the trouble figuring out the transition.

Best regards,

Elvis Dowson