[Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Zync: thanks for the excellent tutorial

[Jean-Michel FRIEDT]

I have used the opportunity of the more relaxed days of this Christmas
period to try and run the tutorial at
http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq

Wonderful page, works nearly perfectly, thanks a lot.

A few minor comments to the author or useful to other readers of the mailing
list:
1/ using a brand new Debian/testing installation, it seems that the latest
version of tar will not accept both -c and -s options in its command line.
I hence edited all entries of openembedded-core/meta/lib/oe/ and replaced
the -ps option of tar with -p. Same for the meta/classes entries. Apparently
this has been patched in the latest release of openembedded, but indeed the
zync script will not run out of the box on the latest openembedded release
and, as advised on the web page, I git commited against a given older release,
2/ the note about Xilinx tools to Ubuntu users concerning gmake should be in
bold, huge size, blinking fonts ;)  I spent a while being concerned about
licensing issues when the FPGA synthesis tool would not run. No  
seriously, just
learning to read did the trick. As a side note, it all ran smoothly with the
14.7 release of ISE on a 32-bit x86 architecture. I believe there is a minor
trivial error in the PATH to ISE in which xtclsh should not be included in
the PATH definition.

Anyway, thanks for the tutorial, just need to now understand what I did, but
at least the whole thing is running smoothly.

Best wishes for the new year, JM

--
JM Friedt, FEMTO-ST Time & Frequency/SENSeOR, 32 av. observatoire,  
25044 Besancon, France

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