Petalinux support for Zybo Z710/Z720 with HDMI output petalinux >=2020.1

[tkuraku]

My main goal is to be able to display a GUI from an up-to-date petalinux on the Zybo Z7 board.

 

Are there plans to provide an updated petalinux BSP and hardware design for the Zybo Z7 boards? There are BSPs for 2017.4, https://digilent.com/reference/software/petalinux/start and HDL design here, https://github.com/Digilent/Zybo-Z7-10-base-linux.

in the petalinux 2017.4 there are two drivers in the digilent source tree that make the HDMI display work. clk-dglnt-dynclk.c and digilent_encoder.c. Attached here.

 

as well as some device tree entries:

 

&amba_pl {
	encoder_0: digilent_encoder {
		compatible = "digilent,drm-encoder";
		digilent,fmax = <150000>;
		digilent,edid-i2c = <&i2c0>;
	};

	xilinx_drm {
		compatible = "xlnx,drm";
		xlnx,vtc = <&v_tc_out>;
		xlnx,connector-type = "HDMIA";
		xlnx,encoder-slave = <&encoder_0>;
		clocks = <&axi_dynclk_0>;
		planes {
			xlnx,pixel-format = "rgb888";
			plane0 {
				dmas = <&axi_vdma_1 0>;
				dma-names = "dma0";
			};
		};
	};
};
&axi_dynclk_0 {
	compatible = "digilent,axi-dynclk";
	#clock-cells = <0>;
	clocks = <&clkc 15>;
};
&axi_vdma_1 {
	dma-ranges = <0x00000000 0x00000000 0x40000000>;
};
&v_tc_out {
	compatible = "xlnx,v-tc-5.01.a";
};

 

and two kernel configurations options, enable `CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_AXI_CLKGEN` in the kernel configuration and set the CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES kernel parameter to 128.

I found these through looking through the 2017.4 BSP. These additions allow the hdmi output to work with a vanilla petalinux 2017.4 project using the xilinx kernel/u-boot sources.

I tried upgrading the HDL design to 2020.1 and 2021.1 and I am not able to get the HDMI display to work with petalinux. It seems there are two issues, one is that I had to modify the two drivers to compile with the newer kernel and may have broken something (though I don't think so), and two that the v_tc_out device tree node that is auto generated from the hardware file in petalinux is significantly different. The relevant file is components/plnx_workspace/device-tree/device-tree-generation/pl.dtsi.

I would really like to get this functionality working on an up to date tool chain. Any help or support from Digilent would be appreciated.

 

Thank you

clk-dglnt-dynclk.c digilent_encoder.c

[thinkthinkthink]

This is the branch where the petalinux project for zybo z7-10 was moved: 10/Petalinux/upgrade.

And this should be the branch with the hardware for that petalinux project: 10/Petalinux/update.

Edit: The projects I linked where upgraded to 2021.1.

Edited April 6, 2022 by thinkthinkthink

[tkuraku]

Fantastic. This is exactly what I wanted. I will test it out this weekend.

 

thank you

[tkuraku]

@thinkthinkthink, thanks for your help on this. It I tried to built the petalinux project from your link. I wasn't able to get a frame buffer device to show a GUI like was done on the 2017.4 version. It seemed that the project-spec/meta-user/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-xlnx/0001-drm-xilinx-Add-encoder-for-Digilent-boards-new.patch is not set to be applied by default. Is this still a work in progress then?