I’m also very interested in using dunfell (but with the Xilinx flow) On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 12:51, Adrian <[email protected]> wrote:
> Has anyone ported meta-xilinx to dunfell? > > Is there any way to use meta-xilinx with newer release than 'zeus'? Is > 'master' (according to conf it supports 'dunfell' and 'gatesgarth') stable > and could be used? > > The latest Xilinx releases (v2020.1 and v2020.2) are based on 'zeus' which > is more than one year old. There were upgrades in other layers (e.g. Qt) > fixing affecting bugs over last year, but they were not backported to > 'zeus'. It's surprising and disappointing that the latest Xilinx release > v2020 was not based on the latest Yocto release. Why is that? > > According to this video [1] yocto is one of the official Xilinx flow. > However, your development milestones are not clear to me. Why don't you > keep meta-xilinx aligned with yocto releases? Is Xilinx committed to > supporting the Yocto flow? > > Regards, > > Adrian > [1] > https://www.xilinx.com/video/software/xilinx-embedded-linux-build-flows-yocto-project.html > > On 22.10.2020 19:26, Mark Hatle wrote: > > Most of the work I've been doing has been on master branch. (But it's been > over > a week since the last major build I've run.) > > The majority of the work has been using MACHINE=zynqmp-generic, with a > DISTRO=poky. > > As mentioned before, the baremetal and some of the microblaze stuff is not > working properly yet. Still trying to figure out how to resolve those issues, > but unfortunately I probably won't get back to it until early November. > > --Mark > > On 10/22/20 9:02 AM, Philip Balister wrote: > > Is there any combination of layers that actually work for zynqmp? I > constantly run into build failures, bad docs etc. > > Philip > > On 10/14/20 3:33 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: > > > On 10/8/20 8:50 AM, Scott Ellis wrote: > > I don't see any commits to *meta-xilinx* *[master]* since Aug 14. > > Since *[dunfell]* is a Yocto LTS release we would really like to use this > version. > > We've replied to this in the past. We don't have any intention of supporting > dunfell in meta-xilinx. > > Our last release was on Zeus, (Fall 2019) and our next major release will be > on > Fall 2020 (unless things change..) > > This is how we've been operating for many years, supporting every other > release. > > What HAS changed recently is that we're actively working on master. So > instead > of waiting until spring for gatesgarth to work, it will be "mostly" working > and > continued development/maintenance through at least spring. > > > Right now the *libgloss* and *newlib* bbappends are still referencing version > 3.1, the versions that *Poky* *[zeus]* uses. > > This work for _master_ is in progress. > > Look at the top three commits: > https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/tree/mgh/master-next > > Note, the reason this hasn't been merged yet is that it DOES NOT YET WORK! > Building a baremetal toolchain results in numerous compiliation and > installation > failures. > > Again, if you or anyone else can help resolve these we'll happily accept > patches > -- but until then the work is on-hold until other more pressing issues are > resolved. (We're constantly juggling both internal and external priorities.) > > > So they can't work with *Poky* *[dunfell]*'s 3.2 versions. > > We started developing master _after_ dunfell was released. It would divide > our > resources to backport the master work to dunfell, and this would limit our > abilities to manage master and do other new development tasks that we have. > > As stated a few months ago when this was asked. If someone wants to manage a > dunfell branch, let us know. We're happy to work with you, but we just don't > have resources to spare managing a dead end when master and future development > is far more important. > > > This makes the *pmu-firmware* unbuildable which is an issue for *zynqmp* > boards. > > From *[dunfell]* branch of *Poky* > > > ~/poky-dunfell$ ls -l meta/recipes-core/newlib/ > total 16 > drwxrwxr-x 2 scott scott 4096 Apr 23 07:09 libgloss > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 858 May 1 14:24 libgloss_3.2.0.bb > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 571 May 1 14:24 newlib_3.2.0.bb > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 1995 May 1 14:24 newlib.inc > > From *[master]* branch of *meta-xilinx* > > > ~/poky-dunfell$ ls -l > meta-xilinx/meta-xilinx-standalone/recipes-core/newlib/ > total 8 > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 405 Aug 26 15:39 libgloss_3.1.0.bbappend > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 584 Aug 26 15:39 newlib_3.1.0.bbappend > > > But also in the new *meta-xilinx/meta-microblaze* layer *newlib* and > *libgloss* > reference the 3.3 version. > > But 3.3 is from *Poky* *[master]*, what will be the branch that follows > *[dunfell]*. > > From *[master]* branch of *meta-xilinx* > > > $ ls -l meta-xilinx/meta-microblaze/recipes-core/newlib/ > total 16 > drwxrwxr-x 2 scott scott 4096 Aug 15 19:13 files > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 229 Aug 15 19:13 libgloss_3.3.%.bbappend > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 965 Aug 15 19:13 microblaze-newlib.inc > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 230 Aug 15 19:13 newlib_3.3.%.bbappend > > From *[master]* branch of *Poky* > > > ~/poky-master$ ls -l meta/recipes-core/newlib/ > total 16 > drwxrwxr-x 2 scott scott 4096 Feb 1 2020 libgloss > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 858 Jun 5 16:12 libgloss_3.3.0.bb > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 571 Jun 5 16:12 newlib_3.3.0.bb > -rw-rw-r-- 1 scott scott 1942 Jun 5 16:12 newlib.inc > > > So is Xilinx even working on a *[dunfell]* branch or are they just skipping > over > this release? > > No we are NOT working on dunfell, nor do we have plans to do so. > > If someone else wants to backport master work to Dunfell and handle help > requests, we are more then happy to work with you and facilitate this. But we > simply don't have the resources to do this ourselves. In future releases, we > hope to enable it, but we started doing this work AFTER Dunfell was already > obsolete (from a development perspective). > > --Mark > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Best Regards Peter
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