Building the Hardware

To evaluate this flow, I have used the AXI GPIO in the Programmable Logic with the interrupt enabled, and connected to the PS IRQ:

Generate the Output Products, Create HDL wrapper, Generate Bitstream and Export to SDK to create the HDF

Create the Linux Image in Petalinux

Here, I used Petalinux 2017.4 to create the Image with the steps below:

• petalinux-create -t project --template zynqMP -n linux_images
• cd linux_images
• petalinux-config --get-hw-description=<path to HDF>
  • DTG Settings → (zcu102-rev1.0) MACHINE_NAME
• petalinux-config -c kernel
  • For Petalinux  < 2019.1:
• Device Drivers -> Userspace I/O drivers
  • <*> Userspace I/O platform driver with generic IRQ handling
  • <*> Userspace platform driver with generic irq and dynamic memory
• For Petalinux 2019.1:
• Device Drivers -> Userspace I/O drivers
  • <*> Userspace I/O platform driver with generic IRQ handling
  • <*> Userspace platform driver with generic irq and dynamic memory
  • <*> Xilinx AI Engine driver
• Open the system-user.dtsi in linux-images\project-spec\meta-user\recipes-bsp\device-tree\files and make the mods below:

/include/ "system-conf.dtsi"
/ {
    chosen {
        bootargs = "earlycon clk_ignore_unused   uio_pdrv_genirq.of_id=generic-uio";
        stdout-path = "serial0:115200n8";
    };
};
 
&axi_gpio_0 {
    compatible = "generic-uio";
};
 

• petalinux-build
• cd images/linux
• petalinux-package --boot --fsbl zynqmp_fsbl.elf --fpga design_1_wrapper.bit --u-boot

Place the BOOT.BIN and the image.ub onto the SD card and boot the kernel.

Test the Interrupt

To test, make sure that the UIO is probed:

• ls /dev

You should see that the uio0 is listed here.

Make sure that the IRQ is registered:

• cat /proc/interrupts

You should see this registered as below:

To generate an interrupt, we can write to the ISR in the AXI GPIO. Below is a snippet of the register space
from the AXI GPIO product guide

For example, we can use the devmem utility to write to this register from the linux console:


Then rerun, the cat /proc/interrupts and the interrupt count should be incremented for the gpio:


If users would like to debug a Linux application in SDK, then they can follow on from here with the wiki article here

Related Links

• AXI GPIO PG
• Petalinux User Guide