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

[Philip Balister]

Scroll down for info on the commit Jonathon mentioned. I forgot to cc
the list on the reply :)

Philip


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio on Zync: thanks for the
excellent tutorial
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 17:54:48 -0500
From: Philip Balister <address@hidden>
To: Jean-Michel FRIEDT <address@hidden>

On 01/01/2014 01:06 PM, Jean-Michel FRIEDT wrote:
> Damn I missed all these replies to my initial post due to not being
> familiar
> with our webmail interface and not having access to the lab for the last
> 8 days. I hope I have not done anything stupid by not taking into account
> the comment about having to wait for the OE update: I have tried to add my
> own comments to the Zynq wiki page but not being familiar at all with
> OE, some
> of these comments might be overly naive (I believe not wrong, since
> these are
> the steps I took to get to the point of compiling the FIR on FPGA example).
> Some knowledgeable person should definitely review these updates to the
> wiki
> page.
> 
> At the moment, I am stuck with two issues:
> 1/ eth0 will not start when booting linux on the Zynq with the current
> kernel,
> so no git/opkg install from the web at the moment (makes the software
> update a
> bit complex by keeping on putting the SD card back in the PC connected
> to the
> internet)

I think this is the phy address in the device tree file issue.

See:
https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/commit/a573551a42e2f4c8efa82db90f938b10e62a3971

Philip

> 2/ cmake does not find gnuradio-runtime: I am pretty sure this is an issue
> with the outdated FindGnuradioRuntime.module issue but I have not yet
> managed
> to get gr_modtool to run ... still working on it.
> 
> I assume my addition to the wiki on the installation of cmake is not
> erroneous,
> but should be checked as well.
> 
> JM
> 
>> On 12/27/2013 03:38 AM, Vanush Vaswani wrote:
>>> Is there any difference in using this stack compared to say, the
>>> Ubuntu distribution available on www.armhf.com, and compiling gnuradio
>>> from source?
>>
>> Compiling GNU Radio from source on an embedded board takes much longer
>> than using a cross compiler. Also, during the compile on a low memory
>> embedded board, parts of the com[ile takes lots of memory and you may
>> need to nurse the build during this part of the build.
>>
>> My i7 builds gnuradio loads faster than even a quad A15.
>>
>> Both approaches work, I just do not like to wait :)
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>>
>>> Vanush
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 2:31 AM, Philip Balister
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 12/26/2013 02:28 AM, Jean-Michel FRIEDT wrote:
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> We need to update the OE section of this page to use:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/balister/oe-gnuradio-manifest
>>>>
>>>> for managing the OE layers. I'd suggest not starting a new checkout if
>>>> you have something working until after I update UHD to 3.6.2 though :)
>>>>
>>>> Also, https://github.com/balister/meta-sdr/wiki/CrossCompile has
>>>> instructions for cross compiling GNU Radio and testing the result. We
>>>> need to verify this approach works for OOT module development also.
>>>>
>>>> Merry Christmas,
>>>>
>>>> Philip
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
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