Confused about building PYNQ image using Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04

Reedom · July 1, 2020, 5:53pm

Hi,

I am confused on the documentation. Correct me if am wrong but the documentation states that the PYNQ image build flow has been tested on Ubuntu 16.04, but not 18.04. Thus me might need additional packages to run on 18.04. Is this correct?

Where could I find the additional packages to get it working on 18.04? I saw that there was a special folder to enable Ubuntu 18.04 host support on PYNQ’s repository. Are those the additional packages needed?

rock · July 1, 2020, 5:57pm

It should work as well on Ubuntu 18 host machines. Which documentation did you check? Maybe we need to fix that.

Reedom · July 1, 2020, 7:23pm

github.com

Xilinx/PYNQ/blob/master/sdbuild/README.md

# PYNQ Image Building

This repository constructs a PYNQ image from the Ubuntu repositories and the
sources of the other constituent parts.

## Choosing a VM environment

It's highly recommended to run these scripts inside of a virtual machine. The
image building requires doing a lot of things as root and while every effort
has been made to ensure it doesn't break the world this is far from guaranteed.
This flow must be run in a Ubuntu based Linux distribution and has been tested
on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04. Other Linux versions might work but may
require different or additional packages. The build process is optimised for
4-cores and can take up to 50 GB of space.

## Quick start
 * Ensure that sudo is configured for passwordless use and that proxy settings
   and other environment variables are forwarded correctly.
 * Run `scripts/setup_host.sh`
 * Install Petalinux (e.g. 2017.4)

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So in the "Choosing a VM environment heading, it states that it was tested on Ubuntu 16.04, and right after that it states that the other versions should work, but may require different or additional packages. However, the guide does say that Ubuntu 18.04 is being targeted for the build.

I noticed that their is a folder called “ubuntu/bionic”, so I was assuming this was where the additional packages for Ubuntu 18.04 were located.

rock · July 7, 2020, 3:31am

We will update this file. It has not been updated for a while.

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