Zynq 2015.2 Release

This page contains information documentation and release information corresponding to Xilinx software version 2015.2.

Documentation

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

What's new?

Linux

• Upgrade to v3.19

• Various ZynqMP device driver GPIO/Sata/etc

• Use MACB driver instead of EMACPS by default with multiqueue support

• Use USB Chipidea driver instead of private driver

• Support for 10G MAC

• DRM changes

U-Boot

• Upgrade to v2015.04

• Add ZynqMP QSPI/NAND/SPI/I2C/MP support

• Add Zynq PS gpio driver

• Various zynq gem changes

• Fix zynq timer

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Release Git Tags

The Xilinx Git repositories, U-Boot and Linux, are tagged for the release with a tag of xilinx-v2015.2.

Release Contents

FSBL
The First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL) used to generate the boot.bin file is based on the 2015.2 release of the Xilinx tools.

U-Boot
The release is based on U-Boot 2015.04 created from the xilinx-v2015.2 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 3.19 Linux kernel created from the xilinx-v2015.2.01 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 2015.2 please use new device-tree generator available in https://github.com/Xilinx/device-tree-xlnx repository.

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 to an SD card and copy the boot.bin and devicetree.dtb files appropriate for your Zynq platform to the root of the SD card.