Ubuntu base 18.04 lts

[xuminready]

upgrade to Ubuntu Base 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

[ThorodanBrom]

This is still using a very old kernel, ie. the parallella-linux kernel has to also be updated to at least 4.15, right?

[xuminready]

It's Linux 4.6.0+. The same kernel as Parabuntu 2016.11.1. It works on my Parallella board(zynq 7020).

[olajep]

Thank you @xuminready

Fantastic work!!!

Will try to review / merge ASAP!!

Cheers,
Ola

[olajep]

Please split out the changes to packages*.txt to a separate commit
You need to justify the ones you commented out (and if obsolete remove them).
Many of these have been put in by user requests and will break things for some people if we remove them. Just because you don't need it doesn't mean we can remove it. Hope you'll understand.

// Ola

[olajep]

No to these two. We might need to ask users to switch branches etc. to troubleshoot things etc.

[olajep]

Looking good!

Just some minor things and I'll take it.

[olajep]

No biggie but can we please leave this in but replace vivid --> bionic?

There actually is a parallella ppa but we never used it.

[olajep]

This and the other stuff you've commented out you need to justify.
Leave it in here even if it is already installed in the base ubuntu image.
Things might change in the future and then we'll have regressions that can be easily avoided by just leaving the package in here.

[olajep]

Is there a 'ubuntu' user in the ubuntu base image? If yes, rename that user. If no, remove these lines instead of just commenting them out.

[xuminready]

I don't think there's a 'ubuntu' user in the base image.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Base/InstallationExample

[ThorodanBrom]

Are there any advantages to updating parallella-linux to 4.15? I understand that @xuminready said that it works fine with the existing kernel, but 4.15 is the recommended kernel for Bionic.

If there is, I can try to make the necessary changes

[olajep]

@ThorodanBrom wrote.

This is still using a very old kernel, ie. the parallella-linux kernel has to also be updated to at least 4.15, right?

Yes. We use https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/linux.git as upstream so you should merge their latest stable release. Believe it's 2018_R1.

Also need to rebuild the fpga bitstreams

HDMI bitstreams:
Need to switch to the corresponding hdl branch here:
https://github.com/parallella/parallella-fpga

Headless bitstreams:
Rebuild
https://github.com/parallella/oh/tree/stable/parallella/fpga

Correct vivado version can be found here:
https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/hdl/blob/hdl_2018_r1/library/scripts/adi_ip.tcl#L6

// Ola

[xuminready]

@ThorodanBrom Please upgrade Linux kernel if you know how to do it.

[ThorodanBrom]

@xuminready @olajep I will try to upgrade the kernel in some time. Honestly, I am new to the parallella board, so I'll have to find some instructions on how to do the bitstream building etc.

[olajep]

@xuminready Thank you, great job!!! //Ola

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