Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bitbake GNU radio for Zynq

[Philip Balister]

On 05/05/2015 05:41 PM, Jeff Tu wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Thanks for the help. I can build the kernel and run it on a Zedboard using 
> the dizzy branch exclusively. The additional step of using the 
> zynq-gnuradio-manifest repo to try to include the FIR example is what broke 
> things. That repo manifest replaces the meta-xilinx layer with an older one. 
> My plan was to try out the zynq-fir-filter-example, but I think I'll just use 
> it as a reference for now. Thanks!

I would be really nice to update the Zynq FIR ACP co-processor to work
with recent builds. Bonus point for integrating with Alfredo's work on
using GNU Radio buffers without the copy (and without magical
allocators). [1]

Philip

[1] http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Keystone2

> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Murray Thomson" <address@hidden>
> To: "Jeff Tu" <address@hidden>
> Cc: "Philip Balister" <address@hidden>, "GNURadio Discussion List" 
> <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 1:25:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bitbake GNU radio for Zynq
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> It looks like eglibc was at some point before dizzy renamed to glibc.
> 
> daisy: poky/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
> dizzy: poky/meta/recipes-core/glibc/glibc-package.inc
> 
> Recipes from dizzy shouldn't depend on eglibc. The xilinx layer seems to
> have change this
> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/pipermail/meta-xilinx/2014-September/000751.html
> 
> If you are sure that all your layers are using dizzy and still asks for
> eglibc, you may get better luck with another branch.
> It would be interesting to see if you can build a minimal console image. If
> you can, take a look at the first part of the log printed in the console,
> it will tell you the branch that the layers are using.
> 
> Regards,
> Murray
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 2015-05-04 17:17 GMT+01:00 Jeff Tu <address@hidden>:
> 
>> Hi Philip and Murray,
>>
>> Thanks for your help. I mentioned that I was actually working off the
>> dizzy branch. I also went through all the branches available for the
>> meta-xilinx repo and could not find the file:
>>
>> ERROR: ParseError at
>> /home/jeff/Desktop/gnu/oe-repo/oe-core/../meta-xilinx/recipes-core/meta/
>> external-xilinx-toolchain.bb:1:
>> Could not include required file recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>>
>> Also as a note I'm running on Ubuntu 12.04.
>>
>> Thanks again!
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Philip Balister" <address@hidden>
>> To: "Murray Thomson" <address@hidden>, "Jeff Tu" <
>> address@hidden>
>> Cc: "GNURadio Discussion List" <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2015 6:59:51 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Bitbake GNU radio for Zynq
>>
>> On 05/04/2015 06:11 AM, Murray Thomson wrote:
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> I think is worth checking that you are using the same branch (dizzy) in
>> all
>>> the beta layers that you have. Including openembedded, yocto, meta-sdr...
>>> The reason why you were missing meta-python could be that your
>> openembedded
>>> layer is newer than the meta-sdr used to create the bblayers.conf file. I
>>> would suggest that you try checking out the branch that you want instead
>> of
>>> the latest stable one.
>>
>> Use:
>>
>>
>>
>> $ git clone git://github.com/balister/oe-gnuradio-manifest.git -b dizzy
>>
>> I need to update the manifest and delete "stable" :)
>>
>> Philip
>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Murray
>>>
>>>
>>> 2015-05-04 3:20 GMT+01:00 Jeff Tu <address@hidden>:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm a trying to compile GNU radio for Zynq using the example described
>>>> here:
>>>>
>>>> https://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/gnuradio/wiki/Zynq
>>>>
>>>> The instructions do have an out of date warning, and I'm just trying to
>>>> figure out what things to update. From another list posting, there are
>>>> instructions to checkout the dizzy branch instead of stable in the
>>>> following line:
>>>>
>>>> $ git clone git://github.com/balister/oe-gnuradio-manifest.git -b
>> stable
>>>>
>>>> When I reach the bitbake step:
>>>> $ bitbake gnuradio-dev-image
>>>>
>>>> It first fails due a missing meta-python layer. That's easily solved by
>>>> modifying the bblayers.conf file to include meta-python. After that, I
>> get
>>>> the following error:
>>>>
>>>> ERROR: ParseError at
>>>> /home/jeff/Desktop/gnu/oe-repo/oe-core/../meta-xilinx/recipes-core/meta/
>>>> external-xilinx-toolchain.bb:1: Could not include required file
>>>> recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc-package.inc
>>>>
>>>> I cannot find any eglibc-package.inc in the file system. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Sorry, I'm a complete GNU radio
>>>> beginner!
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
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