Manually build the PandA image

The steps below can be run inside a Docker container (e.g. the kas image) if the Yocto host dependencies are not available on your system.

Steps¶

1. Initialise the Yocto source tree using repo and the Xilinx manifest:

   BRANCH="rel-v2023.2"
   repo init -u https://github.com/Xilinx/yocto-manifests.git -b $BRANCH
   repo sync

2. Load the Yocto build environment, passing the build directory as argument:

   . setupsdk build

3. Add the meta-panda layer:

   git clone https://github.com/PandABlocks/meta-panda ../sources/meta-panda
   bitbake-layers add-layer ../sources/meta-panda

4. In conf/local.conf set:

   MACHINE = "pandabox"   # or e.g. "xu5
   DISTRO  = "panda-petalinux"

5. Build the image:

   bitbake panda-image

6. Collect the output files:

   mkdir boot
   cp -Lf tmp/deploy/images/pandabox/fitImage-petalinux-initramfs-image-pandabox-pandabox \
       boot/image.ub
   cp -f tmp/deploy/images/pandabox/{rootfs.squashfs,boot.bin,boot.scr,target-defs} boot/
   zip boot-pandabox.zip boot/*

See How to build the PandA boot image for a description of each output file.