Hi,

We are a new applied science lab using Zynq's to embed our data acquisition and 
control systems. We find the ability to use the xilinx-tools layer very useful 
as it allows non HDL experts to configure hardware through the Vivado block 
diagram, then Yocto builds the custom OS for our embedded nodes. This would 
enable our science teams  to create not only the science package but the 
embedded instrumentation and control without detailed expertise in embedded 
Linux or HDL.


Our issue is we would like to track the Python releases, Yocto appears to have 
fixed the issues it had with Python tracking in the Thud release, but 
xilinx-tools appears to be stuck at Rocko.


We wonder what underlying problems are causing this?  We would like to 
investigate fixing it, first we would need to know what the issues are.


My understanding is:

  *   Yocto is a build system based on layers of recipes that construct 
components.
  *   xilinx-tools is a layer of recipes for building the device-tree and other 
BSP components using Xilinx's proprietary tools.

What I don't understand is why the recipes in xilinx-tools can't be handled by 
more recent versions of Yocto.

Does xilinx-tools work with more recent Yocto versions than Rocko?
I have a basic version of a build system working based on the 2018.3 Xilinx 
releases but have not tried upgrading Yocto/openembedded versions.

Cheers,
Geoff Gillett.
Senior Scientist, Quantum Valley Ideas Laboratories.


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