Canonical Ubuntu
The purpose of this page is to provide AMD specific information related to available Canonical products and services.
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General Information
Canonical Website: https://canonical.com/
Contact Info: https://canonical.com/contact-us
Canonical is the company that produces the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system used around the world on millions of computers and devices from cloud to desktop to edge devices. Canonical is a UK based company that has been developing the Ubuntu operating system since 2004. Ubuntu is the number one choice of Linux operating systems for Innovators, smart IoT, machine learning, and AI scientists. AMD is proud to be partnered directly with Canonical to provide Ubuntu on AMD Adaptive silicon.
Certified Ubuntu for AMD Devices
AMD has partnered with Canonical Ltd to provide a Certified Ubuntu Images for use with select AMD Adaptive evaluation boards. This partnership offers many benefits to our mutual customers including:
Certified Ubuntu on popular AMD Adaptive SoC evaluation boards
Familiar Ubuntu Classic Desktop environment
Extremely rich Debian based package availability
Binary Linux distribution for ease of use and quick start evaluations
Industry standard support options from Canonical for LTS including security patches
An easy path to production using Ubuntu Core
Simpler, less expensive customer engagements for chip down customers
The ability to produce Accelerated designs using the best technologies from Ubuntu and AMD
Are you working on a commercial project?
Canonical partners with silicon vendors, board manufacturers and leading enterprises to shorten time-to-market. If you are deploying Ubuntu on AMD adaptive platforms at-scale, please reach out to Canonical to get access to ongoing bug fixes, critical security patching, long-term support; or to learn more about our solutions for custom board enablement, and application development services.
For information about using Canonical’s Ubuntu images on a commercial project, read Canonical’s IP policy
Evaluation Boards
The AMD Certified Ubuntu images are provided by Canonical and can be download from http://ubuntu.com/download/xilinx. See the table below for links to the getting started guides for the various images.
Device Family | Board | Getting Started Pages |
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Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC | ZCU102/4/6/111 | Getting Started with Certified Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Xilinx Devices |
KV260/KR260 | ||
Versal Adaptive SoC (Developer Preview) | VCK190 |
For each device family, a common SD card image is provided that provides board-specific functionality with a common Ubuntu kernel and root filesystem.
For more information about the Ubuntu certified AMD boards, please refer to the Canonical certified hardware list.
AMD Snaps
Snaps are application packages for desktop, cloud and IoT that are easy to install, secure, cross‐platform and dependency‐free. Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Canonical Snap Store. AMD maintains a set of snaps with the prefix “xlnx-” - For more information about the available AMD snaps, please refer to Snaps for Certified Ubuntu on Xilinx Devices .
Known Issues and Limitations
Certified Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for Xilinx Device
Certified Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Xilinx Device
Support Information
Need help with Ubuntu? There are a variety of support options available from Canonical, AMD, and the Ubuntu community.
Canonical Support | How to contact | Notes |
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Certified Ubuntu Image Download | Official SD card image & developer tools | |
Ubuntu Documentation | https://docs.ubuntu.com/?_ga=2.20688957.42196557.1630342764-962845395.1629387539 | All the standard Ubuntu Documentation |
Ask Ubuntu Forums | https://askubuntu.com/?_ga=2.267032971.42196557.1630342764-962845395.1629387539 | Community Forums around Ubuntu |
Intellectual Property Rights Policy |
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Ubuntu IRC chat channels | Ubuntu help channel #ubuntu | |
Community Help via Ubuntu wiki | Loads of Ubuntu information | |
Commercial Support | Paid option for customers requiring personalized support and custom hardware support |
AMD Support | How to contact | Notes |
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AMD Wiki Pages for Ubuntu | Getting Started Guides, info on Ubuntu support for AMD Adaptive silicon and reference boards | |
AMD Embedded Linux Forums | https://support.xilinx.com/s/topic/0TO2E000000YKXXWA4/embedded-linux?language=en_US | Help on running Linux on AMD Adaptive silicon. Add topic “Embedded Ubuntu” for visibility. |
Related Links
https://ubuntu.com/blog/kria-kr260-a-scalable-robotics-platform-powered-with-ubuntu
https://ubuntu.com/blog/canonical-teams-with-xilinx-to-accelerate-the-development-of-adaptive-socs
Embedded Linux: Yocto or Ubuntu Core
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