Workflow RTEMS on Zynq Zedboard

[Jan Sommer]

Am 2016-03-17 16:31, schrieb Badr El Hiouel:
> Thank you Jan for responding.
> 
> When building RTEMS ( 1st step ) everthings went fine until this line :
> 
> *building: arm-rtems4.12-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1*
> *error: building arm-rtems4.12-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1*
> *Build FAILED*
> *  See error report:
> rsb-report-arm-rtems4.12-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1.txt*
> *error: building arm-rtems4.12-gdb-7.11-x86_64-linux-gnu-1*
> *Build Set: Time 1:38:43.259719*
> *Build FAILED*
> 
> 
> I had this error that I can't found anywhere the solution for it. I
> attached the report bug .. Can you please tell me what is going wrong ?
> 
> 

It seems to be the same error which occurs quite often here recently.
Apparently you need to install the python-development packet.
On a debian based distro it should be python-dev or libpython2.7-dev

Best regards,

    Jan

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> 2016-03-14 20:49 GMT+01:00 Jan Sommer <soja-lists at aries.uberspace.de>:
> 
>> Hi Belh,
>> 
>> We only have the MicroZed board here, but many things should work 
>> pretty
>> similar.
>> First you need to build a cross-compiler toolchain for RTEMS.
>> This is done using the RTEMS source builder. This nice tool will 
>> usually
>> do everything for you.
>> You can follow basically the direction from here:
>> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Tools/RSB
>> You just have to build the toolchain for your architecture, which 
>> would be
>> 4.12/rtems-arm (assuming you want to build RTEMS 4.12)
>> If that succeeds you have a working compiler, which can generate
>> executables for arm-based computers.
>> Add the binary directory of your new toolchain to your PATH 
>> environment
>> variable.
>> 
>> Next, you need to build an RTEMS-bsp. This will use the toolchain from 
>> the
>> previous step and compile the RTEMS-kernel for your specific board.
>> Clone into the rtems git-repository and first call ./bootstrap inside 
>> the
>> directory.
>> Then, it's a standard configure, make, make install process.
>> 1. Create a build directory outside of the source tree
>> 2. Run
>> ../rtems-git/configure --target=arm-rtems4.12 \
>> --enable-rtemsbsp=xilinx_zynq_zedboard \
>> --enable-tests=samples \
>> --enable-cxx \
>> --enable-posix \
>> --prefix=/opt/rtems/bsps/4.12 BSP_ARM_A9MPCORE_PERIPHCLK=333333333U
>> 
>> Change the prefix-path and the options according to your needed setup.
>> 3. Run: make && make install
>> 
>> This should compile and install RTEMS for the zedboard to the given
>> destination.
>> Usually this includes some simple example programs like ticker.exe 
>> search
>> for it in the install or build directory.
>> 
>> The tricky part is now to actually execute the RTEMS program (i.e.
>> ticker.exe) on your zedboard. For that you need a bootloader and
>> a valid configuration for the FPGA. I basically installed XSDK and 
>> Vivado
>> from Xilinx and then followed the tutorial for the microZed board from
>> here: http://zedboard.org/support/design/1519/10
>> There, when creating the boot-images, instead of adding the elf-file 
>> of
>> the hello-world program, I added the ticker.exe and then continued to 
>> write
>> the image to the flash memory (or sd-card). The tutorials above are 
>> for the
>> microZed board, but if you take a look at them you will probably be 
>> able to
>> find sources for the normal zedboard.
>> 
>> I hope this might help you to get started. If you have more specific
>> questions maybe some of the people with a real zedboard can help.
>> Unfortunately we haven't managed to run an RTEMS application using 
>> u-boot
>> so far.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>>    Jan
>> 
>> 
>> Am Monday 14 March 2016, 17:34:42 schrieb Badr El Hiouel:
>> > Hello ,
>> >
>> > I own a Zedboard and i don't know how to launch RTEMS on it. I followed
>> > some instructions i found on the internet but i don't really understand
>> > what i do. I have confusion between building RTEMS bsp and Xilinx bsp,
>> > confusion where to build it on XSDK or as i saw on the internet using
>> > U-boot ?
>> >
>> > Can you please suggest me a workflow to follow , i really need this.
>> >
>> > Thank you for your help.
>> >
>> > Belh
>> > ​
>> 
>>