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2023.1 Release Notes for Open Source Components

2023.1 Release Notes for Open Source Components

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Last updated: May 30, 2024 by aravindb (Unlicensed)
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This page provides details on the 2023.1 release information such as new features and bug fixes for all of the Xilinx Open Source Components. 

Table of Contents

New Features

Each "Component Name" has a link to respective pages. For more details refer to individual pages.

Component Name

Platform/SoC Supported

Feature Description

Component Name

Platform/SoC Supported

Feature Description

Linux Kernel and Drivers

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Linux

    • Linux kernel upgraded to 6.1

    • AXI Ethernet phylink support

    • Versal pin controller support

    • GiGadevice OSPI and QSPI flash part support

    • eMMC 5.1 HS400 mode support

 

BSP, Drivers and Libraries

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Versal Net

  • Baremetal, FreeRTOS

    • LWIP upgraded to 2.1.3

    • LWIP enhancements to support PS SGMII fixed link, multi MAC and multi PHY configurations

    • FreeRTOS upgraded to 10.5.1

    • WWDT Q&A mode support

    • eMMC 5.1 HS400 mode support

  • Versal Net

    • New library XilPKI added to support PKI operation . This has support for ECDSA signature generation, verification and Key pair generation for curves P-256,P-384, P-521

U-Boot

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq-7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • U-Boot upgraded to mainline 2023.01

ZynqMP

  • Added display driver for U-Boot console

Versal

  • Added support for OSPI DDR for Micron flashes

  • Added support for ADI phy in ethernet

Trusted Firmware-A(TF-A) (old name Arm Trusted Firmware (ATF))

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • TF-A upgraded to upstream v2.8 version.

Versal

  • Updated macro name to generic and move to common place

  • Added infrastructure to handle multiple interrupts

PetaLinux

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

PetaLinux Tool Features:

  • Upgraded our PetaLinux tool to new Yocto version 4.1 (Langdale)

  • Deprecated auto login menu config to align with upstream Yocto

  • Added a config option to boot from HBM

  • Added a menu config option for WolfSSL and a config option to enable crypto extensions in it.

  • Open sourced PetaLinux configuration scripts to use in Yocto flow as well.

  • Enabled custom DTSI flow for DFX/CSOC in PetaLinux

  • platform-auto.h removal for MicroBlaze and using microblaze_generic.h

  • Added Versal Net platform support to generate images

  • Added Ubuntu 20.04.5, 22.04 LTS and 22.04.1, alma Linux 8.7 and open SUSE leap 15.3 support.

  • Deprecated external XSA generating DTBO from fpgamanager  and chromium web browser packages from rootfs  to align with Yocto

  • Added AMD copyright info into our scripts and logos.

  • Added menu configs for OpenAMP, Xen, xen-qemu, alias nodes.

PetaLinux BSP Features:

  • Added the new BSP to support vpk180 prod.

  • Enabled Sysmon in secure mode as default in VPK180 ES and production BSP's

  • Versal Net common images

  • Added VEK280 revB BSP support to support ADI PHY

  • Updated VEK280 extensible platform design with  AIE + VDU with AIE app in BSP pre-builts

  • Added SDT BSP's of ZCU111, VCK190, VPK180 and ZCU104 boards.

  • Added Support for tenzing2 se7 and se9 bsps.

  • Removed the local openamp and xen dtsi files and updated OpenAMP and Xen enablement flow in BSP's

  • Added K24 SOM based BSP’s :- k24c-som, k24i-som, kv240-starterkit, kd240-starterkit

  • Open sourced the Versal SC board specific device tree files and bitstreams (versal-sc-firmware repo)

  • Updated SC image deployment flow to have OTA support going forward.

  • Added ADI PHY support in SC image which supports vek280 revB.

  • Added support for tenzing2 system controller Image.

Device-tree Generation (DTG)

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Enabled sugar syntax for overlays.

  • Enabled custom DTSI flow for DFX/CSOC

  • Added Versal Net platform support

  • Added AMD copyright info in our device-tree Tcls

PLM (Platform Loader and Manager)

  • Versal

Versal Net

  • OCP - DevIK Cert generation

  • OCP -  Attestation response

  • FIPS

  • Measured Boot (PCR)

  • Image store support for subsystem restart

Versal

  • Image Selector update for Versal

  • PLM footprint optimization

  • Provisioning support for SSIT devices

  • Secure Lockdown for SSIT devices

  • 5 PPKs support in PLM and Secure Libraries

  • IDCODE bypass support

  • Boot time estimator (SSIT and HBM devices)

  • New devices support (Windbond (QSPI), Gigadevice (OSPI))

Zynq UltraScale+ FSBL

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Upstreaming of RSA, NVMEM drivers

  • New devices support (Windbond (QSPI), Gigadevice (OSPI))

Xen

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Versal Net

    • Xen running on Cortex R52 Early Access

    • Nested SMMU: enable using VFIO drivers inside guests

QEMU

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • QEMU version upgrade to 7.1.0

  • Support added for Versal Net's tamper register model and ROM response emulation

  • Support added for VEK280

  • Support added for VHK158

Platform Management (XilPM)

  • Versal

  • Versal

    • Secure lockdown support

    • GPIO based power domain control

    • S200 AIE driver EEMI API enablement

AI Engine (AIE)

  • Versal* (AI Core Series)

  • AIE2 Linux debugging

    • Supported event tracing and profiling.

    • Added Mem Tile event

    • Supported status dump and sysFS

    • Supports V70 & VEK280 devices

  • Enabled AIE SSW driver for S100/S200 devices

  • Multi-applications & multi-partitions

    • Supports VEK280 on Linux

Yocto

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Yocto version upgraded to 4.1.2 (Langdale)

  • Updated Xilinx layers for Langdale

    • meta-xilinx

    • meta-xilinx-tools

    • meta-xilinx-tsn

    • meta-petalinux

    • meta-kria

    • meta-system-controller

  • Updated community layers for Langdale

    • meta-jupyter

    • meta-ros

    • meta-openamp (used to be Xilinx specific layer)

  • Integrated Xilinx component upgrades

    • Linux kernel

    • U-Boot

    • TF-A

    • Xen

    • Qemu

    • GStreamer

    • OpenAMP / libmetal

  • New components

    • kernel-module-vdu

    • libvdu-ctrlsw

    • libvdu-omxil

    • vdu-firmware

    • dfeofdm

  • Deprecated components

    • meta-pynq layer

    • chromium-x11

    • bqplot

  • New machine configurations

    • zcu670-zynqmp

    • vhk158-versal

    • vpk120-versal

    • vpk180-versal

    • vek280-versal

    • ac701-microblazeel

    • kcu105-microblazeel

    • vcu118-microblazeel

  • Deprecated features

    • fpga-manager-util image feature

    • custom autlogin (was replaced with community implementation: serial-autologin-root)

  • Miscellaneous

    • Support added for lima open-source driver as alternative to libmali

    • Added machine configuration generator tool and generate machines based on that

    • System Device Tree configuration tool changed to generate a machine configuration file

    • XSA distribution moved to petalinux.xilinx.com (was hdf-examples repo on github)

    • Extended fpgamanager_custom bbclass to support custom dts and prebuilt dtbo

    • Added pl-partial-custom.dtsi support in fpgamanager_dtg_dfx/csoc

    • Changed default machine for microblaze-generic to kcu105

    • Renamed core to poky in yocto manifests

    • Support added for armv8 crypto assembly instructions in wolfssl

    • Removed meta-python2 references

OpenAMP and Libmetal

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • libmetal upgraded to 1.3.0

  • open-amp upgraded to 1.3.1

  • GitHub

    • Upgraded to 2022.10 release

DFXMGR

  • Kria SOM/Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Versal

  • Support added for external-fpga-config in the device tree overlays, important for Versal boards

XilSEM

  • Versal

  • Client support for PL MB and APU (both Linux and baremetal)

  • Support added for tandem designs

  • Support added for new SSIT (VP1502, VP1702, VH1542, VH1782) devices

  • Support added for new mono (VM1502.& VM1402) devices

Multimedia

  • ZynqMP-EV devices (VCU/DP/GPU)

  • Versal AI Edge ( for VDU)

  • Updated Gstreamer framework to version 1.20.5

  • Updated VCU, PS_DP and GPU Linux device drivers to support 6.1 kernel.

  • VCU new feature: Decoding Intra Only Frames with '--decode-intraonly'

  • Updated Xilinx V4l2, DRM framework to support 6.1 kernel.

  • VEK280:

    • VideoDecoderUnit (VDU) SW support

      • Control-sw, openMaxIL, MCU firmware and kernel drivers source code repos are released

      • Multistream and Multi-instance support

    • Sample Decoder test application is supported

Bug Fixes

Each "Component Name" has a link to respective pages. For more details refer individual pages.

Component Name

Platform/SoC Supported

Bug Description

PetaLinux

Document update

  • Updated the MAC address priority

  • Fixed DFX section documentation

  • Changed the ATF terminology to TF-A terminology

  • Fixed fpga-manager template section documentation

PetaLinux

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Fixed openamp-fw-echo-test build failure in template flow

  • In DFX flow, device tree includes for the PL are in the wrong order so the device tree does not compile. Fixed the order

  • Creating ZynqMP design with AXI EMMC in PetaLinux is not configured successfully. Fixed the issue.

  • Fixed Qt5 build failure with petalinux-build --sdk

  • Fixed FSBL compiler flag not working through petalinux-config issue.

  • Fixed QEMU boot issue for VCK5000

  • Fixed PetaLinux Kernel Configuration applies default configuration after saving the configuration issue.

Linux Kernel and Drivers

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Linux

    • Fixed MACB driver to request firmware dynamic configuration only when a supported PS SGMII interface is present

    • Sync ZDMA coherent and buffer memory masks to 44 bit

    • Fixed an issue with Zynq FPGA manger in programming the bitstream with latest Kernel of 6.1

    • Fixed an issue in USB dwc3 gadget to avoid unwanted error of "IRQ hiber not found" on Versal.

    • Fixed an issue with Zynq UltraScale+ USB during suspend resume when USB is not a wakeup source.

    • Fixed Versal OSPI read timeout issue with higher data size

    • Fixed QSPI flash protect lock/unlock issues with different parts

    • Fixed WWDT timeout issue with a different clock frequency

    • Fixed Versal Linux boot issue without clk_ignore_unused boot argument 

    • Fixed Versal OSPI UBIF's file system boot issue

    • Fixed clk-wizard driver failure with error -22

    • TRNG: Fixed RGRG sequence and bug in pattern check comparison

    • TRNG: Clear schedule array after DF operation is done

BSP, Drivers and Libraries

  • MicroBlaze

  • Zynq 7000

  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC

  • Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

  • Versal

  • Baremetal

    • Fixed AXI Ethernet driver Tcl to support detection of connected DMAs/FIFOs when multiple peripherals are connected

    • Fixed an issue in A72 GIC driver to not to enable group0 interrupts while running EL1 NS.

    • Updated EEMI API IDs for PM_FPGA_GET_VERSION and PM_FPGA_GET_FEATURE_LIST across the stack (ATF, PMUFW and Linux) to avoid conflict with other EEMI IDs on Versal.

    • Fixed an issue in M