zynq: document how to use custom ps7_init files

Since U-Boot supported SPL for Zynq boards at v2014.04 release, it
became much easier to build a system.  At that time, however, users
still needed to manually copy ps7_init.c/h to the U-Boot source tree
to generate a working SPL image because ps7_init.c/h output from
Xilinx tools are not compatible with GPL.

Later, the license problem was solved when Xilinx tools became able
to output the GPL-compatible variants (ps7_init_gpl.c/h) as well.
U-Boot v2015.07 or later includes ps7_init_gpl.c/h for major Zynq
boards so that users can build a boot image straight away.

Now Buildroot supports 3 boards (Zedboard, MicroZed, ZC706) without
any manual intervention.  This is a good thing itself, but commit
b9cd72cdbf ("zynq_zc706: bump U-Boot to xilinx-v2016.2") entirely
dropped the information about custom ps7_init files.

This commit provides up-to-date guidance for how to customize the
ps7_init files.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
Acked-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>
[Thomas: rewording and formatting tweaks.]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
This commit is contained in:
Masahiro Yamada 2016-10-03 20:09:56 -05:00 committed by Thomas Petazzoni
parent 12e3d98d8f
commit 3907b1ac66

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@ -6,13 +6,6 @@ Currently, three boards are natively supported by Buildroot:
- Avnet ZedBoard (zynq_zed_defconfig)
- Avnet MicroZed (zynq_microzed_defconfig)
The following build procedure focuses on them, but you can adjust it to your
board even if it is not listed above. Major Zynq-based boards are supported by
U-Boot, and their Device Trees are merged in Linux Kernel. If your board is the
case, booting the kernel is a piece of cake. All you need to do is to change:
- Kernel Device Tree file name (BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME)
- U-Boot board defconfig (BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_KCONFIG)
Steps to create a working system for a Zynq board:
1) Configuration (do one of the following)
@ -50,3 +43,44 @@ References:
- Zedboard/Microzed information including schematics, reference designs, and
manuals are available from http://www.zedboard.org .
Support for other boards:
If you want to build a system for other boards based on the same SoC
(for ex. Digilent Zybo board), and the board is already supported by
the upstream kernel and U-Boot, you simply need to change the
following Buildroot options:
- Kernel Device Tree file name (BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME)
- U-Boot board defconfig (BR2_TARGET_UBOOT_BOARD_DEFCONFIG)
Custom ps7_init_gpl.c/h support:
To generate a working boot.bin image, ps7_init_gpl.c/h are required in
the U-Boot source tree. Without those files, boot.bin will be built
successfully but it will not be functional at all. Those files are
output from the Xilinx tools, but for convenience, U-Boot includes the
default ps7_init_gpl.c/h of popular boards. Those files may need to be
updated for any programmable logic customizations which impact
ps7_init (clock/pin setup & mapping/AXI bridge setup/etc). See
board/xilinx/zynq/ directory of U-Boot for natively supported ps7_init
files. If the ps7_init files for your board are not found in U-Boot,
you need to add them by yourself.
1) Start with a defconfig supported by Buildroot (e.g. Zedboard)
make zynq_zed_defconfig
2) make uboot-menuconfig
Visit the following menu and enable CONFIG_ZYNQ_CUSTOM_INIT.
ARM architecture --->
[*] Use custom ps7_init provided by Xilinx tool
3) Copy ps7_init_gpl.c/h generated by the Xilinx tools into
output/build/uboot-xilinx-<pkg version>/board/xilinx/zynq/custom_hw_platform/
4) make
Note: The files in step 3 will need to be re-copied after cleaning the
output directory and at this time, there is no way to save them as
part of the buildroot configuration, except as a U-Boot patch.