Working with PetaLinux - The Basics

Introduction

This chapter will take the user through a standard build and board bring-up process using PetaLinux. Providing guide lines and references to more advance topics on using PetaLinux.

Scope and Background

To make the best of this chapter the target audience should have knowledge on the following topics.

• The PetaLinux directory structure.
• The development, programming and debugging of embedded system.
• General knowledge on the build process of the PetaLinux or any Linux based kernel.
• GNU Software development tools
• Using the Xilinx EDK tools.

Assumptions

This section makes the following assumptions:

• The base directory at which the PetaLinux is installed is in the $PETALINUX environment variable.
• The target hardware project has been included into PetaLinux source tree.
• The FS-Boot bootloader has been added into the target hardware project.