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PetaLinux 101 - Getting Started Quickly

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  • Presented by Tony McDowell, Technical Marketing Engineer at Xilinx
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Beginner. No background in the topic needed.

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Tony McDowell walks through the installation, project creation, and build process of Xilinx PetaLinux.

This video is an introduction to the Xilinx PetaLinux build tool. Technical Marketing Engineer Tony McDowell walks you through an example workflow inside of the PetaLinux tools including download, installation, project creation, and project build. Important Links Xilinx Forums - forums.xilinx.com Xilinx Wiki - wiki.xilinx.com PetaLinux Downloads (Xilinx.com) - xilinx.com/support/download/index.html/content/xilinx/en/dow… UG1144 – PetaLinux Tools Reference Guide (2020.2) - xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2020_2/ug1… PetaLinux (2020.2) Release Notes - xilinx.com/support/answers/75775.html Xilinx wiki archive (2020.2) - xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/1065451521/202…

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What people say. Recommended as a helpful starting guide for setting up Linux on Zynq FPGAs.

u/Lekgolo167in r/FPGA • Recommends

On “How to get started PETALINUX ?”

This video is pretty good. (There was also another YouTuber but he seems to have deleted his channel). link to this video Honestly I learned the most through the xilinx getting started guides. They are pretty good as far as documentation goes.

u/ShaunusDogin r/FPGA • Recommends

On “Running Linux on Zynq Ultrascale+”

I have installed Linux on a Zynq Ultrascale+ board (Enclustra Mars XU3) using the Petalinux software tools. It is a bit of a long process to set up and get going. You can find some helpful guides here: link to this video link to this video To avoid any compilation issues make sure your Vivado and Petalinux versions are the same. Your board may come with a .BSP file that you can use to configure the Petalinux setup with, otherwise you will need to export the hardware .xsa file from Vivado and use that with the Petalinux config. If you're doing more complex designs in Vivado this is probably the way to go. I would recommend setting up the state cache storage to reduce compilation time. It really sucks waiting fo…