Building the Hardware

This section provides information on building your hardware project in PetaLinux.

FS-Boot Support

FS-Boot is the first-stage bootloader that is used to boot the target system. This section assumes that the FS-Boot bootloader is already added to the target hardware project. Refer to the FS-Boot Section for more information on FS-Boot.

To include FS-Boot bootloader to your hardware project, refer to the Including FS-Boot Section.

Building your Hardware

This section assumes that your hardware project is already added to the PetaLinux source tree.

If you have not added your hardware project. Refer to the Adding New Hardware Project Section for information on adding your hardware project to PetaLinux.

Change directory into your hardware project directory in PetaLinux.

cd $PETALINUX/hardware/<myproject>

Where <myproject> is the directory that holds your hardware project.

Generate Makefiles

Use the following command to generate the project Makefiles.

$ xps -nw system.xmp
% save make
% exit

Generate Bitstreams

Use the following command to generate the hardware bitstreams.

$ make -f system.make bits

This step will take a while to complete.

Generate Library Files

Use the following command to build the project libraries.

$ make -f system.make libs

Build User Application

Use the following command to build FS-Boot bootloader along with any other applications.

$ make -f system.make program

Initialise BRAM

Use the following command to initialised the BRAM.

$ make -f system.make init_bram

Once the above procedures are completed, the hardware project is built and ready to be used for downloading into the target device.