Table 1: Design Flow Overview
Design Flow Step Tool / Workflow
Hardware platform creation Vivado
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Design Suite
Create PetaLinux project
petalinux-create -t project
Initialize PetaLinux project
petalinux-config --get-hw-description
Configure system-level options
petalinux-config
Create user components
petalinux-create -t COMPONENT
Configure the Linux kernel
petalinux-config -c kernel
Configure the root file system
petalinux-config -c rootfs
Build the system
petalinux-build
Test the system on qemu
petalinux-boot --qemu
Deploy the system
petalinux-package --boot
Update the PetaLinux tool system software components
petalinux-upgrade --url/--file
petalinux-create
The petalinux-create tool creates objects that are part of a PetaLinux project. This tool
provides two separate workows. In the petalinux-create -t project workow, the tool
creates a new PetaLinux project directory structure. In the petalinux-create -t
COMPONENT workow, the tool creates a component within the specied project.
These workows are executed with petalinux-create -t project or petalinux-create
-t COMPONENT, respecvely.
petalinux-create Command Line Options
The following table details the command line opons that are common to all petalinux-
create workows.
Table 2: petalinux-create Command Line Options
Option Functional Description Value Range Default Value
-t,--type TYPE
Specify the TYPE of object to create. This is
required.
• project
• apps
• modules
None
-n,--name NAME
Create object with the specified NAME. This is
optional when creating a project from a BSP
source. Otherwise, this is required.
User-specified None
-p,--project PROJECT
PetaLinux project directory path. This is optional. User-specified Current Directory
--force
Overwrite existing files on disk. This is optional. None None
-h,--help
Display usage information. This is optional. None None
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