Apollo Tool

This repo is to simplify building the BUTool & friends software for the Apollo SM Petalinux system via cross compiling.

Currently this adds the BUTool-IPBus-helpers, ApolloSM_plugin, and genericIPBus_plugin.

Common pre-req's

• petalinux 2018.2
• boost-devel
• readline-devel
• ld

How-to (in the end)

• make
• cd BUTool; ZYNQ_IP=1.2.3.4 ./make/copyZynq.sh
• Yay! you are done!

How-to currently

• Build the petalinux image for the Apollo SM via https://github.com/apollo-lhc/SM_ZYNQ_FW
• Mount the ext4 image generated from that in /mnt
• Build the feature-UIOuHAL branch from https://github.com/dgastler/ipbus-software
• Set IPBUS_PATH CACTUS_ROOT to point to whhere you checked out the ipbus-software repo
• make
• cd BUTool; ZYNQ_IP=1.2.3.4 ./make/copyZynq.sh
• Yay! you are done!

TODO

• Simplify the petalinux image use by downloading tagged releases of the system images.
• Add option to automatically checkout and build ipbus or use an existing installation
• Add IPMI plugin to build system