71653 - PetaLinux 2018.3 - Product Update Release Notes and Known Issues

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71653 - PetaLinux 2018.3 - Product Update Release Notes and Known Issues

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This Answer Record acts as the release notes for PetaLinux 2018.3 and contains links to information about resolved issues and updated collateral contained in this release.

Solution

BSPs supported for the 2018.3 PetaLinux Release

This table contains supported BSPs for Zynq-7000, MicroBlaze, and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC available on the Embedded Development download page.

Note: XY - Represents release year, Y - Represents release version.

Note: The “sstate cache file” (sstate-rel-v2018.3.tar.gz) can be found on the Xilinx download area along with an associated README (sstate_rel_2018.3_README) file that outlines the procedure to use “sstate cache”.

Refer to the attached file “2018.3_PetaLinux_Packages_List” for software package versions tested on host machines, which is required for PetaLinux installation tools.

README for downloads area.

PetaLinux 2018.3 contains the following build collateral:

2018.3 Release Notes for Open Source components wiki page:

Covers details for below components changes (new features/fixes) in a particular release.

https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/56524900/2018.3+Release+Notes+for+Open+Source+Components

2018.3 New Features:

PetaLinux

• Added support for using the trim version of XSCT tools to build components such as FSBL, PMUFW etc.,.

• Added support for Programmable Logic (PL) device tree overlay.

• Added support for FPGA Manager utilities.

• PetaLinux now uses only versionless drivers from https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw which means that /components/plnx\_workspace will no longer have fsbl/pmu-firmware/fs-boot directories. For more details refer to (UG1144). It is now similar to other open source components like U-boot and Linux.

• SDFEC Design Example is part of the ZCU111 PetaLinux BSP.

• Added support for RHEL 7.5 and CentOS 7.5 build host.

GPU MALI-400

• Added Wayland compositor and GBM buffer management support in MALI user space libraries for 32 and 64 bit mode.
• Added support for Displayless EGL rendering for MALI binaries.

2018.3 Bug Fixes:

PetaLinux

• Fixed RFDC build issues when using a custom ZCU111 HDF on top of xilinx-zcu111-v20XY.Z-final.bsp.

• Linux reboot command does not work when TRACE port is present in the design.

• Fixed do_populate_sysroot task for petalinux-user-image recipe.

• PetaLinux installer fails to installs when /tmp directory has restricted access.

• PetaLinux FIT image does not boot when image.ub size is larger on a ZC702 board.

• Linux hangs when using lower 36-bit physical memory from petalinux-config option.

• Fix for boot login console taking more than 8 minutes with 2018.2 based rootfs.

GPU MALI-400

• Fixed YUV format issue where the TEX_WIDTH is being interpreted differently than expected.

Known Issues for 2018.3:

README_content_v2018.3

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Contents in the download area

In the download area along with the PetaLinux tool installer and BSPs for various HW. The following content is also available for download:

1. PetaLinux 2018.3 License and copyrights info (TAR/GZIP) file:

   This file contains the copyright headers of all the SW components shipped as part of the PetaLinux tool. It also contains the copyright headers for all the SW packages, available at https://petalinux.xilinx.com/ that petaLinux tool packages in the project, when selected. This file is provide as part of legal requirement for your viewing only. It is not required to be downloaded for using the PetaLinux tool or BSPs.

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1. PetaLinux 2018.3 Open Components Source Code (TAR/GZIP) file:

This file contains the source code of all the SW components shipped as  part of the PetaLinux tool. It also contains the source code for all the  SW packages, available at https://petalinux.xilinx.com/ that petaLinux tool packages  in the project, when selected. This file is provide as part of legal requirement  for your viewing only. It is not required to be downloaded for using  the PetaLinux tool or BSPs.

Sample list of components in the files 1) and 2):

	QEMU

	busybox

	mtd-utils

	libfdt

	dtc

	u-boot

	device-tree-generator

	iso-codes

	ca-certificates

	db

	bash

	Linux

	ATF

	XEN

	kconfig-frontends

	Note: more than 1000 other SW components.

2018.3_PetaLinux_Package_List

Linux Distribution OS details:

1. RHEL Server: Infrastructure Server
2. RHEL Workstation : Development and Creative workstation.
3. CentOS Server (From Everything.ISO): Infrastructure server.
4. CentOS Workstation (From Everything.ISO): Development and Creative workstation.
5. Ubuntu 16.04.04 Desktop.
6. Ubuntu 16.04.04 Server.

Note:

1. Empty packages are not installed means assuming these are default from Linux Distribution.

Tool/Library Versions

RHEL/CentOS versions

Ubuntu