Building the Linux BSP¶
This section describes how to download, configure and build the Linux BSP for the Parallella board.
Prerequisites¶
ARM toolchain
Xilinx tools come with arm-xilinx-eabi-
and arm-xilinx-linux-
toolchains, either of them can be used.
If you do not need or want to use Xilinx tools, any other ARM toolchain (e.g. Sourcery CodeBench lite edition) can also be used for compiling the BSP.
U-Boot tools
U-Boot tools are required to generate a loadable image of the Linux kernel.
On Debian/Ubuntu distributions this software can be obtained with:
apt-get install u-boot-tools
U-Boot¶
Getting the source¶
Official U-Boot source code for the Parallella board can be found at: https://github.com/parallella/parallella-uboot on the parallella-gen0
branch.
In order to get it use:
git clone https://github.com/parallella/parallella-uboot
git checkout parallella-gen0
Building¶
export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=<your_toolchain_prefix> #e.g. arm-xilinx-eabi-
export PATH=</path/to/your/toolchain>:$PATH
make parallella_config
make -j<X> #X is typically no. of threads on your system +1
Linux¶
Getting the kernel source¶
Official Linux kernel source code for the Parallella board can be found at: https://github.com/antmicro/linux-parallella on the parallella-linux3.9
branch.
In order to get it use:
git clone https://github.com/antmicro/linux-parallella
git checkout parallella-linux3.9
Building the kernel¶
export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=<your_toolchain_prefix> #e.g. arm-xilinx-eabi-
export PATH=</path/to/your/toolchain>:$PATH
make parallella_defconfig
make -j<X> uImage #X is typically no. of threads on your system +1