This page contains documentation and release information corresponding to Xilinx software version 2016.1

Documentation

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

• Upgrade to v4.4

• Add UltraScale support for Xilinx XADC driver

• Add support for multi channel DMA to AXI DMA

• Add support for DDR ECC in the Linux EDAC framework

• Add support for AXI Ethernet for Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

• Add EMAC PS support for SGMII mode for Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

• Enable RTC switching to battery power when VCC_PSAUX is N/A

U-Boot

• Upgrade to v2016.01

• Move drivers to driver model

  DCC, ZYNQ UART, UARTLITE

  ZYNQ_GEM, EMACLITE, AXI_EMAC

  Arasan SDHCI

• U-boot Zynq support for QSPI boot device - MACRONIX Mx25l25635f

• U-boot Zynq support for Micron 64 GB eMMC flash

• Added Zynq GEM SGMII support

• Moved GPIO driver to driver model for ZynqMP

• Add GPIO driver in u-boot for ZynqMP

• Support SATA as secondary boot mode for ZynqMP

• Added ZynqMP GEM SGMII

• AXI Ethernet SGMII support for MB

• Read timer and interrrupt setting from DT for MB

Download

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

2016.1-zc702-release.tar.xz

2016.1-zc706-release.tar.xz

2016.1-zcu102-release.tar.xz

2016.1-zed-release.tar.xz

Extract the archive

tar xf 2016.1-<board>-release.tar.xz

Release Git Tags

The Xilinx Git repositories, U-Boot and Linux, are tagged for the release with a tag of xilinx-v2016.1

Release Contents

FSBL

The First Stage Boot Loader (FSBL) used to generate the boot.bin file is based on the 2016.1 release of the Xilinx tools.

U-Boot

The release is based on U-Boot 2016.01 created from the xilinx-v2016.1 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-v2016.1.01 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 2016,1 please use new device-tree generator available in https://github.com/Xilinx/device-tree-xlnx repository.

Yocto

meta-xilinx: Release branch rel-v2016.1 : https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/tree/rel-v2016.1

meta-petalinux: Release branch rel-v2016.1 : https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-petalinux/tree/rel-v2016.1

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 all the files appropriate for your Zynq platform to the root of the SD card.

For ZCU102:

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

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