[meta-xilinx] How to boot the ZynqMP?

[Manjukumar Harthikote Matha]

Hi Mike,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Looijmans [mailto:mike.looijmans at topic.nl]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 10:52 AM
> To: Brian Hutchinson <b.hutchman at gmail.com>; Manjukumar Harthikote Matha
> <MANJUKUM at xilinx.com>
> Cc: Giordon Stark <kratsg at gmail.com>; Jean-Francois Dagenais
> <jeff.dagenais at gmail.com>; meta-xilinx at yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [meta-xilinx] How to boot the ZynqMP?
> 
> On 30-08-17 22:20, Brian Hutchinson wrote:
> > I too have been wrestling with generating the required images to boot
> > the
> > ZCU102 from SD Card using the Yocto + meta-xilinx + meta-xilinx-tools method.
> >
> > I'm totally striking out.  And I'm working with a Xilinx FAE and
> > striking out!  No problem at all doing this kind of thing for ZCU107
> > or Zedboard but
> > ZCU102 is different beast for sure.
> >
> > I have Ubuntu 16.04 box, I've tried yocto 2.2.1 (morty) and 2.3 (pyro)
> > and I get the same result ... my builds die with:
> >
> ...
> > | DEBUG: Executing shell function do_deploy
> > | install: cannot stat
> > '/home/hutch/yocto_2.2.1-
> morty_zcu102/layers/poky/build/tmp/work/zcu102_zynqmp-poky-linux/pmu-
> firmware/2017.1+gitAUTOINC+122565ec40-r0/build/pmu-firmware/Release/pmu-
> firmware.elf':
> > No such file or directory
> 
> 
> Most likely the problem is that the "Release" directory was not created yet. I have
> seen this race condition several times in makefiles.
> As a workaround, add a do_compile_prepend with "mkdir Release" or so.
> 
> However, this seems to happen in the "do_install" phase, so that's probably not the
> case here.
> 
> Another issue can be that actually the "compile" failed. Most of Xilinx' tools don't
> return error codes, so bitbake thinks everything went fine but it didn't actually
> produce outputs. And since do_compile was okay, it won't run again and install
> keeps failing.
> 
> Add a do_compile_append() that contains something like:
> test -e Release/pmu-firmware.elf
> and that would cause do_compile to fail if there's no output.
> 

I think this patch fixes the issue you are mentioning
https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx-tools/commit/ecb804aeb5f23156e36e32085a229883944b0b47

Thanks,
Manju