Zynq 2016.4 Release

This page contains documentation and release information corresponding to Xilinx software version 2016.4

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
https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/ek-u1-zcu102-es2-g.html

What's new?

Linux

• Kernel version 4.6

U-Boot

• Update to 2016.07 u-boot

ARM-Trusted-Firmware(ATF)

• ATF is based on upstream version 1.2

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-v2016.4

FSBL
The First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL) used to generate the boot.bin file is based on the 2016.4 release of the Xilinx tools.

U-Boot
The release is based on U-Boot 2016.07 created from the xilinx-v2016.4 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 4.6 Linux kernel created from the xilinx-v2016.4 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 2016.4 please use new device-tree generator available in https://github.com/Xilinx/device-tree-xlnx repository.

Yocto
meta-xilinx: Release branch rel-v2016.4 : https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/tree/rel-v2016.4
meta-petalinux: Release branch rel-v2016.4 : https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-petalinux/tree/rel-v2016.4

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

Release Details

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Preparing SD card

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

Files In Release

The release archive contains the following files:

Zynq 7000 based boards

To boot this release from SD card :
1) extract the archive and copy BOOT.BIN, uImage, uramdisk.image.gz and devicetree.dtb to the boot partition of SD card

Zynq Ultrascale MPSoC based boards

Images are based on Board Version 1.0