Zynq 2016.2 Release

This page contains documentation and release information corresponding to Xilinx software version 2016.2

Documentation

General Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-ultrascale-mpsoc.html
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug1085-zynq-ultrascale-trm.pdf

General Zynq
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/zynq-7000.htm
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug585-Zynq-7000-TRM.pdf

Software Developers Guide (including bootgen)
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug821-zynq-7000-swdev.pdf

Boards
http://www.xilinx.com/zc702
http://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/EK-Z7-ZC706-G.htm
http://www.zedboard.org
ZCU102 evaluation board

What's new?

Linux

• EDAC support for OCM
• DDR ECC EDAC support in Linux
• Support for Quad SPI mode when using AXI QSPI IP

U-Boot

• Support for MTFC64GJDDN-4M IT

Download

The gziped tar ball contains the pre-built Linux images for the board platform









Extract the archive

Release Git Tags

The Xilinx Git repositories, U-Boot and Linux, are tagged for the release with a tag of xilinx-v2016.2

FSBL
The First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL) used to generate the boot.bin file is based on the 2016.2 release of the Xilinx tools.

U-Boot
The release is based on U-Boot 2016.01 created from the xilinx-v2016.2 tag.
More details about configuring, building and running U-Boot are located on the U-Boot and Build U-Boot pages.

Linux
The release is based on a 4.4 Linux kernel created from the xilinx-v2016.2 tag.
More details about configuring, building and running Linux are located on the Linux, Zynq Linux and Build Kernel pages.

Device-tree Generator
For Vivado 2016.2 please use new device-tree generator available in https://github.com/Xilinx/device-tree-xlnx repository.

Yocto
meta-xilinx: Release branch rel-v2016.2 : https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/tree/rel-v2016.2
meta-petalinux: Release branch rel-v2016.2 : https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-petalinux/tree/rel-v2016.2

More details on how to build OSL images is present at Yocto OSL builds

Release Details

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Files In Release

The release archive contains the following files:


To boot this release from SD card, extract the archive and copy BOOT.BIN to the root of SD card

For ZCU102:

Stop the boot from u-boot

1. Press enter when you see ‘Hit any key to stop auto-boot’ string on serial output log screen.
2. On u-boot prompt, run: booti 0x80000 0x6000000 0x4000000