PetaLinux 101 - Getting Started Quickly

[@andreabonatti5018]

Tony you have officially become one of the deities in my little temple of all the people on the internet that helped me with a university project. The Xilinx guide was helpful but with someone explaining its contents it becomes much easier. Again thank you.

[@robv3872]

Thanks for making this! Hope to see many more!

[@fw3mbedded598]

thanks a lot for such detailed instructions .. only by following this i was able to build and boot linux on my zcu104 board

[@tahirsengine]

Hey Tony, it was great to see this video. It will be great if you upload a project that takes things from VHDL, block diagrams to Petalinux. Define different parts and how can we configure them. Maybe a small series of lectures will be great. Especially when we want to store system contents on QSPI and eMMC. Actually, I am an HDL FPGA /ASIC guy and I am really looking for some sources that can teach me FPGA software design flow. Your lecture was anyway great. :)

[@adaptivecomputingdeveloper4413]

From Tony: Thanks for the kind words. This is really good feedback and a really good idea for future content. This video was intended to be an overview of the PetaLinux process without too much depth but there are definitely things that can be covered in more detail.

[@ronsalesky4428]

Thank you for an excellent and comprehensive introduction to the Petalinux build process. Regarding using Petalinux sstate cache artifacts, how does one deal with a situation such as for version 2021.1 where there is both sstate and downloads available plus sstate-update1 and downloads-update1. How are they specified in the petalinux build process?

[@novavela]

Did you find the answer to how to manage the updates and downloads packages ? Are they cumulative updates ?

[@ShubhanshuArya]

hey tony how can i install apt on petalinux after booting the xillinx board

[@CornelisVermazen]

Thanks for the good explanation (Perfect).

[@michaelbonnet590]

Could we get a similar kind of guide on using bootgen, both CLI and GUI?

[@henryhowland3686]

This is great, thanks

[@imranhussain-yq2of]

Can i install OS in zedboard/PYNQ Z2 Board

[@Eckmuhl29]

I'm totally new about Petalinux, I always see people running it in a VM. Why not directly with a Linux machine?

[@TheAstronomyDude]

Can it run regular Linux, like a Raspberry Pi ?

[@adaptivecomputingdeveloper4413]

Please check out Ubuntu on Xilinx boards ubuntu.com/download/xilinx

[@adaptivecomputingdeveloper4413]

From Tony: The PetaLinux tools build a custom Linux operating system using firmware, Linux kernel, and packages. PetaLinux itself doesn’t run anything. But, Xilinx has partnered with Canonical to create a Certified Ubuntu for Xilinx Devices release. You can download it from the official Ubuntu site here: ubuntu.com/download/xilinx. We have information about using it on the Xilinx wiki here: xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/2037317633/Getting+Started+with+Certified+Ubuntu+20.04+LTS+for+Xilinx+Devices

[@myetis1990]

should have focused on the filesystem packages explanation.

[@adaptivecomputingdeveloper4413]

From Tony: Thanks for the feedback. I agree that there’s a lot more detail about the package groups that I _could_ have gone into but then the video would have been much longer. The goal of this video was to give an overview of the general process. If you’d like to see content about the package groups themselves, I’ll consider it for a future video.

[@albertshown3174]

WHERE ARE THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS? WHY ARE YOU USING AN ALREADY-INSTALLED MACHINE?

[@Bangbabes-kg1mo]

I know right, technical and detailed as the vid is... somewhat painful to extrapolate the information eluded to be within