PYNQ 3.0.1 VirtualBox install and SD build

[briansune]

Thank you PYNQ development team to releasing new 3.0.1 PYNQ.

In this custom board build guide the PetaLinux, Vivado, Vitis are using version 2022.1 aka kernel 5.15.

The NEW build environment setup script solved most issue when PYNQ 2.7 environment faced but there are still some issue need to take care.

Let’s recall the old PYNQ 2.7 install guide:

Stuck at extract yocoto

Unless people having hard time on setting up the environment: Vagrant is not a good method to setup the SD build environment. I have not investigate to the bottom but what previous engineer shows there might Virtual R/W issue during such setup. STEPS: I will suggest download 18.04.06 LTS Ubuntu from official website Create a virtual disk size about 200GB or more, set the CPU >#4, RAM >#8192 Update Ubuntu packages before setting up the PYNQ 3b) Git clone the PYNQ to /home//PYNQ 3c) sudo ch…

It is good to know the installation of PetaLinux and the environment setup script are almost the same as the attached PYNQ 2.7 install guide on VirtualBox + Ubuntu 18.04.
And the new PYNQ 3.0.1 I choose to use VirtualBox + Ubuntu 20.04.

For new PYNQ 3.0.1 step 13 no longer needed and can be ignore.

However, qemu-arm-static version is wrong.

So simply fix by downloading manually:

/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static
mv /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static-bak

Download at Releases · multiarch/qemu-user-static · GitHub

/usr/bin/qemu-arm-static --version
qemu-arm version 5.2.0 (Debian 1:5.2+dfsg-3)
Copyright (c) 2003-2020 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

Once you are confirm the version:

make BOARDS=xxxxx

Now image the SD card bootup the board:

Enjoy~ =]