PetaLinux Tools - 2021.2 English

PetaLinux offers tools to customize, build, and deploy embedded Linux solutions on Xilinx processing systems. Tailored to accelerate design productivity for SoC devices, the solution works with the Xilinx hardware design tools to facilitate the development of open source Linux systems for Versal devices.

PetaLinux tools include the following:

• Build tools, such as GNU, petalinux-build, and make to build the kernel images and the application software.
• Debug tools, such as GNU debugger (GDB), petalinux-boot, and Oprofile for profiling. The following partial list shows the supported PetaLinux toolchain:

  GNU gcc/g++ toolchain

  Xilinx Arm GNU tools.

  petalinux-build

  Used to build software image files.

  Make

  Make build for compiling the applications.

  GDB

  GDB tools for debugging.

  petalinux-package

  Used to create the boot image.

  petalinux-boot

  Used to boot Linux.

  QEMU

  Emulator platform for the Versal device.

  Oprofile

  Used for profiling.

The following figure shows the PetaLinux tool flow.

For more information, refer to the following:

• PetaLinux Tools Documentation: Reference Guide (UG1144)
• https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/18842250/PetaLinux on the Xilinx Wiki.