New in Embedded Software

Yocto Project

(Yocto Project is NOT updated in this release and will be synced to Scarthgap in 2024.2)

Updates:​

• U-Boot 2024.01​
• Arm® Trusted Firmware 2.10​
• Linux Kernel 6.6​
• Qemu 8.1.0​
• Xen 4.18​
• OpenAMP 2023.10​

Changes:​

• Dynamic Configuration: Enhancements made to allow for dynamic configuration adjustments.​
• Bin format default for AMD Zynq™ and Zynq MP​
• Support bin/pdi only (no dts): Bin/pdi format is now supported exclusively, with DTS being deprecated.​
• fpgamanager bbclass is now deprecated
• Remove Deprecated Yocto Machines:​
  • VCU118​
  • KCU105​
  • KC705​
  • AC701​

PetaLinux Tool

General Updates:​

• Removing all Ubuntu 18.x.x Host OS Support and Adding Ubuntu 22.04.3 Support KASLR Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization support has been added to the boot script.​

General Infrastructure

U-Boot

New Features and Enhancements

• QSPI Flash Part Support: W25Q256JWFIM, IS25LP02GG, and IS25LX512M​
• OSPI Flash Part Support: MX66UM2G45G​
• Enabled KASLR for Zynq MP, and Versal, platforms​
• Added protection for OSPI flashes​
• U-Boot has been upgraded to version 2024.01​
• New Defconfig: Added defconfig for Kria SOM with AMD Zynq MP
• CONFIG_LTO is now enabled for Versal/Versal Net mini QSPI/OSPI configurations​

Arm Trusted Firmware (TF-A):

• Upgraded to TF-A version 2.10

AMD Versal™ Boot, Configuration, and Security

Security, AMD Versal:​

• RSA, ECDSA Versal Linux Drivers: Introduced RSA and ECDSA Linux drivers for Versal.
• ZU+: ​ - Upstream Secure Image Driver: Introduced an upstream secure image driver for ZU+.​
• Upstream Zynq MP SHA Pending Rebase Patches: Pending rebase patches for upstreaming Zynq MP SHA for enhanced security.​ ​
• Segmented configuration GA​

AIE Resource Manager Decoupling:​

• The AIE SSW Resource Manager has been decoupled from its previous dependencies, allowing for more flexible resource management configurations.
  

​AIE Support for Independent Graph Compilation with Sub-partition Initialization:​

• AIE now supports independent graph compilation with sub-partition initialization, enabling more efficient utilization of resources and improving overall performance.

Linux PAN (Privileged Access Never) Support:

• Added support for Linux PAN (Privileged Access Never), enhancing security by restricting kernel access to certain memory regions, thereby mitigating potential vulnerabilities.

XilSEM​

• Versal- Net​
  • XilSEM client support for PL MB, A78 bare-metal​
     
• Versal​
  • Tandem design support for SSIT devices​
  • DFx design support for Mono & SSIT devices​
  • Continue to support for additional mono (VE1752, VE2802) and SSIT (VP2802) devices

Multiprocessing Software​

• Component upgrade to 2023.10 release​
• virtio-pci and virtio-console support​
• Xen version update to 4.18​
• Workflow decoupling build flow for Zynq MP & Versal​
• Bufferless IPI kernel mailbox driver support & openamp verif of openamp test cases

Updates for Linux Kernel 6.6 and Ubuntu 24.04​

Device Drivers & Frameworks:​

• VCU, VDU, Mali-400, and PS_DP: Updated device drivers and frameworks for VCU, VDU, Mali-400, and PS_DP to ensure compatibility with Linux kernel version 6.6 and Ubuntu version 24.04.​
  

​Frameworks:​

• V4L2 Capture and DRM/KMS Display: Updated V4L2 capture and DRM/KMS display frameworks to support Linux kernel 6.6 and Ubuntu 24.04, ensuring seamless integration and performance.​

​Workflow Decoupling Flow Support:​

• Introduced workflow decoupling flow support for GPU, VCU, VDU, and PS_DP Linux drivers, enhancing flexibility and efficiency in resource management and task allocation.​

Linux​

• Linux kernel upgrade to 6.6
• XXV Ethernet ethool and phylink support​
• Versal DDRMC Linux EDAC Driver Enhancements​
• Support for new OSPI and QSPI Flash parts​

Bare-metal And FreeRTOS​

• Production Support for AMD Microblaze™ V​
• FreeRTOS Kernel upgrade to 10.6.1​
• LwIP upgrade to 2.2.0​
• FATFS upgrade to R0.15​
• Support for new OSPI and QSPI Flash parts​
• AXI I3C Bare-metal driver Master mode support​

Workflow Decoupling​

• AMD Versal Net and VP1902 support in AMD Vitis Unified Platform​
• SDT based Petalinux BSP support
• Yocto support for building embeddedsw components through SDT + Lopper.​
• Subsystems/isolations support for Versal and Versal Net​
• FPGA full bitstream loading and DFX support​
• Windows® performance improvements in unified Vitis​
• Enhancements for unified Vitis (incremental build, hw error checking)​
• Support for embeddedsw Multimedia Drivers​
• Support for AXI PCIe and PS PCIe EP drivers​

Yocto Project

• Yocto minor version upgrade to 4.1.4 (Langdale)​
• Integration of AMD component upgrades
• Implementation of dynamic configuration
• Renaming of fpgamanager classes
• Preservation of existing classes for backward compatibility for 1 release
• Introduction of initial support for classic SoC / segmented boot flow for Introduction of Versal​™
• Enhanced support for more than 1 dtsi in fpgamanger_custom / dfx_user_dts classes
• Improving and adding README files, available at:​
  • https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx/tree/master/docs​
  • https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx-tools/tree/master/docs​
• Machine configurations​
  • Removed zcu1275 and zcu1285​
• Multimedia​
  • Defaulting to Weston 9 for Mali400 and Weston 10 for Lima (Mali400 is not compatible with Weston 10)
• Kria​
  • Adding support for K24 and KD240
  • Using Yocto instead of Petalinux ramdisk
• RISC-V bare-metal toolchain​
  • Addition of rv32ima and rv32imc multilibs​
• Gen-machine-conf:​
  • Adding a machine override option to the dt-processor script
  • Adding a machine inheritance option to the dt-processor script

PetaLinux

• Introduction of NFS root support for MicroBlaze (MB)
• Implementation of an automated boot flow when the user selects any available memory in the design
• Implementation of an automated HBM boot flow
• Support for segmented boot flow templates in PetaLinux tools
• Removal of OS support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 20.04.1 LTS versions
• Addition of OS support for Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS and 22.04.2 LTS versions
• Addition of OS support for OPEN SUSE Leap 15.4 and AlmaLinux 9.1 versions
• Addition of a config option to specify the inherit conf file used for generating the Yocto machine conf file using gen-machine-conf
• Addition of a config option to specify additional MACHINEOVERRIDES for generating the machine conf file
• Implementation of a password recovery mechanism in PetaLinux without requiring rebuilding
• Migration to use the new FPGA manager template classes from PetaLinux, with details available in UG1144

Device Tree Generator (DTG)

• Inclusion of DCMAC support within DTG
• Incorporation of DTG support for the new segmented boot flow for Versal

General Infrastructure

U-Boot

• Introduction of lock/unlock support for QSPI flashes
• Modification of the spi module to change flush cache to invalidate cache
• Addition of proper dependencies for USB in the zynqmp configuration
• Elimination of the hardcoding of the MDC clock divisor in the zynq_gem net module
• Removal of the setup for boot_targets in Versal if the driver is not enabled
• Inclusion of support to select bootscr flash offset/size from the Device Tree in the AMD board module
• Addition of support for parallel and stacked memories in the spi-nor mtd module
• Inclusion of support for w25q256jwfim in the spi-nor mtd module​
  

Arm Trusted Firmware (TF-A) for Versal:​

• Implemented DDR address reservation in dtb at runtime
• Added support for SMCC ARCH SOC ID
• Transitioned to xlat_v2
• Replaced the irq array with a switch case
• Added support to retrieve chipid information
• Resolved issues related to IPI calculation
• Configured local/remote ID in the header

Arm Trusted Firmware (TF-A) for ZynqMP:

• Configured local/remote ID in the header

Versal™ Boot, Configuration, and Security

• Enhancements in Versal PLM
• Addition of IPI Message Filtering support in Versal
• Improvements in PLM debug for Versal

Security enhancements:

• Authentication time reduction in Versal

Zynq MPSoC FSBL:

• Resolution of print mixup issue when only UART is used in the system

Enhancing Resource Management on Shim Tiles:

• Improved AIE trace and profiling capabilities by introducing more metric sets to support resource management.

Adding DMA and AIE-ML Specific Status Dump:

• Enhanced AIE status reporting by reading additional registers to provide new information related to buffer descriptors in AIE and AIE-ML, including Mem tile information.

Measuring AIE Tile Kernel Utilization:

• Implemented Linux runtime functions to facilitate occupancy calculations for measuring AIE tile kernel utilization.

Controlling User Space Access on Clock-Gated Tiles:

• Removed user space mapping for clock-gated tiles to control user space access.
• Ignored error signals when triggered by accesses to clock-gated tiles.

Software Libraries

XilSEM​

• In the XilSEM Client, support has been added for FreeRTOS in R5-Split mode.
• Implemented IPI message filtering for XilSEM commands.

Full Emulation of Xen PL011:

• Enhanced Xen to provide full emulation of the PL011 UART, making it easier to run unmodified operating systems on Xen.

Increased Compatibility for Unmodified OSs:

• Improved the ability to run any operating system with a PL011 UART driver as a Xen VM.

Xen Support for Cortex-R52 with SMP:

• Enabled SMP (Symmetric Multiprocessing) support for Xen on Cortex-R52.
• Allows running Xen on both Cortex-R52 cores in an RPU cluster.
• Simplified configuration of device assignments and resource protection between the R52 cores.

Secure Xen Support for Virtio:

• Added Xen support for Safe Virtio, securely exposing Virtio devices to Xen VMs.
• Enables running Virtio backends in Dom0 or any other DomU.
• Eliminates the need for full privileges to run a Virtio backend, providing safety and security benefits.

• The Versal-Edge VDU Control-SW application now features support for Auto-Instance selection parameters.
• In cases where the user does not specify a video decoder device ID, the control software application will determine the device based on the current load.

Enhancements to PL HLS Video IPs:

• Introduced support for YUV_420_8bit 3planar format in the Frame Buffer Write IP.
• Implemented support for YUV_420_8bit 3planar format in the Frame Buffer Read IP.

Linux:​

• Added flash protection support in the OSPI driver.
• Introduced support for 1G/10G switching IP.
• Enhanced the PTP Timer Syncer driver with EXTTS support and added PHC device/index support in PL Ethernet and PTP Timer Syncer drivers.
• Support for the PM (Power Management) framework is now available in Bare-metal Drivers and FreeRTOS.
• RISC-V BSP support is available as Early Access.
• Added support for Versal QSPI feedback clock check.
• Implemented support for System Device Tree-based workflow decoupling flow (available through 2023.2 Unified Vitis) with support for Versal, Zynq MP, Zynq, and Microblaze platforms.

Bare-metal, FreeRTOS​:

• Introduced PM framework support in Bare-metal Drivers and FreeRTOS.
• Provided RISC-V BSP support as Early Access.

• Enhancements in PL HLS Video IPs:
• Introduced support for YUV_420_8bit 3planar in the Frame Buffer Write bare-metal driver.
• Implemented support for YUV_420_8bit 3planar in the Frame Buffer Read bare-metal driver.
• Enhancements in PL Connectivity Video IPs:
• Added support for the VTEM packet feature in the HDMI 2.1 Tx bare-metal driver.
• Introduced SCDB support in the EDID Parser of the HDMI 2.1 Tx bare-metal driver.
• Enabled TMDS mode (4kp60) with RGB888 format support in the HDMI 2.1 Tx Linux driver for the Versal VEK280 board.
• Provided support for TMDS mode (4kp60) with RGB888 format in the HDMI 2.1 Rx Linux driver for the Versal VEK280 board.
• Added HDCP 2x support in the DP 1.4 Rx Linux driver.
• Implemented HDCP 2x support in the HDMI 2.0 Rx Linux driver.

Yocto, Petalinux, DTG Embedded Tool Updates:

• Yocto minor version upgrade to 4.1.4 (Langdale) and integration of AMD component upgrades.
• Introduction of initial support for classic SoC / segmented boot flow for Versal and enhancements in fpgamanager classes.

Bootloaders and Firmware Updates:

• Introduction of lock/unlock support for QSPI flashes in U-Boot.

AI Engine Device Drivers and Tools:

• Improved AIE trace and profiling capabilities with more metric sets.
• Enhanced AIE status reporting for buffer descriptors and resource management.

Multiprocessing Software - Xen:

• Full emulation of PL011 UART for running unmodified operating systems and enhanced compatibility.
• Support for SMP on Cortex-R52, simplified device configuration, and secure Virtio support with safety and security benefits.

Video Codec Unit (VCU) Software:

• Versal-Edge VDU Control-SW application supports Auto-Instance selection parameters.
• Automatic device selection based on system load if video decoder device ID is not provided.

Multimedia IP Drivers (Linux/Bare-metal):

• Added support for various video formats in Frame Buffer Write and Read bare-metal drivers.
• Introduction of new features in HDMI 2.1 Tx and Rx bare-metal drivers, along with HDCP 2x support in selected Linux drivers.

Yocto Project

• Upgraded yocto version to 4.1 (Langdale)
• Updated community layers for Langdale which includes meta-jupyter , meta-ros , meta-openamp
• New machine configurations for ZCU670, VHK158, VPK120, VPK180, VEK280, AC710, KCU105 and VCU118
• Integrated upgraded AMD components for Linux, u-boot, TF-A, Xen, Qemu, Gstreamer, Openamp/libmetal

PetaLinux

• Upgraded Petalinux tool to new yocto version 4.1 (Langdale)
• Support for new Operating systems - Ubuntu 20.04.5, 22.04 LTS and 22.04.1, Alma Linux 8.7 and Open Suse leap 15.3
• BSP support and updates for VPK180, VEK280, ZCU111, VCK190, VPK180, ZCU104, SE7, SE9, K24c-SOM, K24I-SOM, KV240 Starter Kit, & KD24 Starter kit

Device Tree Generator (DTG)

• Enabled sugar syntax for overlays
• Enabled custom DTSI flow for DFX/CSOC

General Infrastructure

U-Boot

• U-Boot upgrade to mainline 2023.01
• Zynq MP: Add display driver for U-Boot console
• Versal: Add support for OSPI DDR for Micron flashes
• Versal: Add support for ADI phy in ethernet

Arm Trusted Firmware (TF-A)

• TF-A upgraded to upstream v2.8 version.
• Versal: update macro name to generic and move to common place
• Versal: add infrastructure to handle multiple interrupts

Versal™ Boot, Configuration, and Security

Versal PLM

• Fixed APU IPIs warning logic for Versal Net
• Increased stack size by 1KB
• Revised Image Store implementation - see UG1304 for more details

PMU Firmware (PMUFW)

• TF-A upgraded to upstream v2.8 version.
• Versal - update macro name to generic and move to common place
• Versal - add infrastructure to handle multiple interrupts

AI Engine Driver – Linux

AIE-ML Linux debugging

• Added support for event tracing and profiling.
• Added Mem Tile event support
• Added support for Status Dump and sysFS
• Now Supporting V70 & VEK280 devices

For AIE driver code, please visit: https://github.com/Xilinx/aie-rt/tree/main-aie.

Software Libraries

XilPLMI

• Added support for SSIT Single EAM Event forwarding from Secondary SLRs
• Fixed CFI readback logic for Versal Net
• Check to skip SRST and multiboot register update for Secondary Boot Modes

XilLoader

• Fixed compilation warning when PLM_SECURE_EXCLUDE is enabled

XilPDI

• Added PcrInfo attribute in XilPdi_ImgHdr

• Certification in Progress for 22.04 on Zynq™ UltraScale+™ and Kria™ (Expected by end of October)
• Available through https://ubuntu.com/download/amd-xilinx

OpenAMP & LibMetal

• Libmetal upgrade to 1.3.0, Open-amp upgrade to 1.3.1

Xen Hypervisor

• Xen update to 4.17
• Support for Virtio-disk and Virtio-net

• Updated Gstreamer framework to version 1.20.5
• Updated AMD V4l2, DRM framework to support 6.1 kernel
• Updated VCU, PS_DP and GPU Linux device drivers to support 6.1 kernel
• VCU New feature: Decoding Intra Only Frames with '--decode-intraonly' cmd line option at control-sw level

Versal AI Edge (VEK280):

• VideoDecoderUnit (VDU) SW support
  • Control-SW, openMaxIL, MCU firmware binary and kernel-module drivers source code repos are released
  • VDU Multistream and Multi-instance decoding in supported
  • Sample Decoder test application is supported

• VCU product guide (PG252) update
• VVAS SDK v3.0 Release
  • Based on Vivado & Petalinux v2022.2
  • Depends on Vitis-AI v3.0
• Versal VDU (Video Decoder Unit)
  • VDU product guide (PG414) update: Available July 8, 2023
  • VDU General Access Release: On github.com

• VCU TRD v2023.1 release by May 10, 2023

Bare-metal

• lwip upgrade to 2.1.3
• lwip enhancements to support PS SGMII fixed link, multi MAC and multi PHY configurations
• FreeRTOS upgrade to 10.5.1
• WWDT Q&A mode support
• eMMC 5.1 HS400 mode support

Linux

• Linux kernel upgrade to 6.1
• Axi Ethernet phylink support
• Versal pin controller support
• GiGadevice OSPI and QSPI flash part support
• eMMC 5.1 HS400 mode support
• Classic SoC boot support for Versal Production release

• QNX BSP's available for ZU+ 102/104/106, & VCK190 (Please contact your FAE)
• VCU, DPU support with QNX – Production version available through QNX software center

• Yocto & Petalinux
  • Upgraded Petalinux tool to new yocto version 4.1 (Langdale)
  • BSP support and updates for VPK180, VEK280, ZCU111, VCK190, VPK180, ZCU104, SE7, SE9, K24c-SOM, K24i-SOM, KV240 Starter Kit, KD24 Starter kit
    
• Device Tree Generator (DTG)
  • Enabled custom DTSI flow for DFX/CSOC
    
• AI Engine Driver – Linux
  • Enabled new devices support including VEK280 & V70 devices
  • Enabled AIE-ML Linux debugging support using SysFs and event tracing - https://github.com/Xilinx/aie-rt/tree/main-aie
    
• For Certified Ubuntu on AMD Devices
  • Please Visit - https://ubuntu.com/download/amd-xilinx
    
• Xen Hypervisor
  • Xen update to 4.17
    
• New VCU feature
  • Decoding Intra Only Frames with '--decode-intraonly' cmd line option at control-sw level

Yocto Project

• Versal Classic SoC fpgamanager bitbake class support
• Zynq MP DFX fpgamanager bitbake class support
• Support for ROS2 humble meta layer (Zynq MP, Versal)
• Support for Kria SOM and Starter Kit QSPI and SD card image build
• Initial Versal Net support

PetaLinux

• Classic soc command line support for versal
• Enable option to append bootargs to the existing ones instead of overriding
• Added external and remote build support for plm and psm-fw option in petalinux-config
• Added Ubuntu 18.04.06,20.04.4 and CENTOS/RHEL 8.6 os support removed centos/RHEL 7.8 and 8.1 support
• VPK180 ES1 BSP, VHK158 EA BSP, VPK120 Prod BSP.

Device Tree Generator (DTG)

• Added classic SOC support for Versal
• Wide concat block supported in DTG

General Infrastructure

U-Boot

• Added support in Versal to load and execute EL1 application by doing a EL2 to EL1 switch.
• Added Write disable command for each Write enable command in spi-nor framework.
• Fixed issue of detecting USB when subsystem reboot is issued.
• Fixed issue of detecting USB flash drive when connected behind usb hub along with low speed devices like keyboard and mouse.

Arm Trusted Firmware (TF-A)

• Add missing decoder for xck24 chip
• Implement the new IPI command PM_LOAD_GET_HANDOFF_PARAMS to get the TF-A handoff

Versal

Versal™ Boot and Security

• SSI Technology PLM – PLM Communication (inter-SLR commmunication)
• Version Management in PLM, Tools
• Secure lockdown
• Load software into HBM without any additional DDR Memory
• Tamper trigger and response support
• Boot Hardware Root of Trust with Authentication for SSI Technology Devices

Zynq™ UltraScale+™

PMU Firmware (PMUFW)

• PinCtrl API support for enabling/disabling MIO tristate
• Disable CRC/Parity Retry feature for self-refresh cases due to limitations in hardware
• Bug fixes related to Ethernet wake and overlay config object loading

AI Engine Driver – Linux

Added Support for AIE-ML devices

• Support deployed for windowed event trace
• Multiple application switch performance enhancements
• New Vectorized Matrix Multiplication sample code available through BSP

AIE Engine Driver Bare-metal

• Added Support for AIE-ML devices

Software Libraries

XilSEM

• Added support for SSIT devices in client & server along with examples
• Added XilSEM error notification to A72 linux users using PLM SW triggered event management framework
• Improved GT arbitration timeout handling and notification
• Provided example for essential bits data classification (EBD)

• Certification in Progress for 22.04 on Zynq™ UltraScale+™ and Kria™ (Expected by end of October)
• Available through https://ubuntu.com/download/amd-xilinx

OpenAMP & LibMetal

• Libmetal support for A72 bare-metal

Xen Hypervisor

• vTPM support
• Xen domains access to a virtual TPM device for secure boot and more
• Ease of use: automatic generation of passthrough DTBs
• Automatically generate passthrough device trees to assign devices to Xen domains using ImageBuilder and Lopper

• VCU demonstrates 4:4:4 in AMD low latency-mode: Production release

VCK190 Ethernet TRD (IEEE Std 1588 Reference Design over switchable 10/25G MRMAC)

• Design upgraded to 2022.2

VCK190 Multimedia TRD (Video+ML)

• Single Sensor Platform upgraded to 2022.2
• Added support for 4K image processing using AIE
• Includes DPU to perform Object Detection

Deprecated TRDs

• VMK180 PCIe TRD
• VCK190 Quad Sensor Platform
• VCK190 HDMI Platform

Note: All Targeted Reference Design will be delivered few weeks after post 2022.2 release.

Bare-metal

• Added support to read PMU counters for ARMv8 (Cortex-A53, Cortex-A72)
• Added support for SMBus support for PSI2C
• Added support for OSPI WP feature of the Micron OSPI flash device
• Bare-metal BSP support for Cortex-A78 and Cortex-R52
• Added FreeRTOS support for Cortex-A78 and Cortex-R52

Linux

• Added support for Versal OCM EDAC
• Added support for GEM Common MDIO bus probe handling
• Added Classic SoC boot support for Versal

• QNX BSP's available for ZU+ 102/104/106, & VCK190 (Please contact your FAE)
• VCU, DPU support with QNX – Production version available through QNX software center

• Annual build tools and software stack updates for Embedded Software:
  • Linux Kernel - 5.15
  • Yocto Project: 3.4
  • GNU Tool Chain - GCC 11.2
  • U-boot - 2022.01
  • Device Tree Compiler - 1.6.1
  • Xen Hypervisor - 4.1.6
  • Arm Trusted Firmware - 2.6
  • FreeRTOS - 10.4.6
• AI Engine driver updated to support AIE-ML devices
• Additional device driver support for Kria SOM hardware features & ROS2 layer
• Ubuntu distribution support available for 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
  • Certification in progress for 22.04 on Zynq™ UltraScale+™ and Kria™
• VCU and Multimedia design & TRD updates
• QNX BSP’s available for Zynq UltraScale+ (102, 104, 106) with DPU and VCU support

Yocto Project

• Enable systemd as default init manager on aarch64 architecture
• Disable auto-login (upstream change)
• Remove direct root login (upstream change)
• Versal DFX(single slot) support
• Deprecate usage of BOARD/BOARD_VARIANT in favor of machine inheritance model

PetaLinux

• User must set password for default user on first login
• MicroBlaze lite architecture is deprecated
• Common VCK190 / VMK180 BSP that works with both old and new boards

Device Tree Generator (DTG)

• Automatic generation of AIE clock information.
• DFX single slot support in Versal

General Infrastructure

U-Boot

• Added Zynq UltraScale+ pinctrl driver
• Added Zynq UltraScale+ GPIO modepin driver
• Added support for SLG7XL45106 I2C GPO expander
• Added power domain driver to load dynamic PMU configuration object
• Added USB2244 SD over USB
• Added USB5744 USB hub reset
• Dynamic SD configuration support
• Added support for reading MAC address from multi-record FRU data in EEPROM
• Added support to read ethernet-phy-id from PHY node and reset the PHY with GPIO

Arm Trusted Firmware (TF-A)

• Disable the -mbranch-protection flag as this was causing the TF-A size increase with GCC 11.2
• Add common interfaces to handle EEMI commands in Versal

Versal

PLM Boot Support

• XilPLMI_v1.6 - Error handling support for XMPU/XPPU EAM errors
• XilPLMI_v1.6 - Enabled ssit_sync per SSIT node
• XilPM_v4_0 - SRST sequence for Versal Devices
• XilPM_v4_0 - Removed CDO commands for XPPU/XMPU protections
• This can be done using CDO in PDI
• XilPM_v4_0 - Add runtime operation support for AIE1

Zynq™ UltraScale+™

FSBL

• Fix secondary boot issue with non-zero multiboot offset
• Added support for ZCU670 boards

PMU Firmware (PMUFW)

• Updated permissions for writing another overlay config object
• Added IOCTL support for dynamic SD, GEM and USB configuration under ENABLE_DYNAMIC_MIO_CONFIG macro
  • disabled by default
• Error reporting when overlay configuration for existing node is called multiple times
• Add user option to manually enable DDR XMPU settings using ENABLE_DDR_XMPU macro
  • disabled by default

AIE Clock Scaling

• At runtime, application or tools can change AIE frequency requirements through the xbutil or XRTAPI
• At runtime, application or tools can get the AI engine frequency through the xbutil or XRTAPI as shown below.
• The AI engine frequency can be scaled down or up
  • Max frequency is restricted to settings defined in the Vivado / Vitis in platform design.
• Use xbutil subcommand advanced to set or get AIE clock frequency

Bare-metal Error Handling

• Added the support for reporting AIE errors in bare-metal AIE driver
  • Previously only available in Linux
• Bare-metal error-handling code can be used as a reference for 3rd-party OS/RTOS porting

• Update to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
  • https://ubuntu.com/download/xilinx
• Beta release in mid-May for Kria SOM Kits
• Final release in mid-June for Kria SOM Kits and ZCU10x Evaluation boards
• ZCU10x Image now includes ZCU111 (Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC)

OpenAMP & LibMetal

• OCM memory can be used for RPMsg between APU & RPU on Zynq UltraScale+ platforms
• OpenAMP & LibMetal synchronized to 2021.10 upstream release
• OpenAMP enabled on Kria SOM platforms

Xen Hypervisor

• Improved VM-to-VM communication mechanisms
• PV drivers support for dom0less VMs
• Dynamic assignment of Programmable Logic blocks to running VMs

• Dynamic Insertion of IDR frame in low latency GOP applications
• VCU processing YUV 4:4:4 10 bit support: Production release
• Custom AMD YUV 4:4:4 solution for encode / decode
• Updated V4L2, PS DisplayPort DRM and VCU kernel driver to support Linux v5.15
• AMD gstreamer rebased to v1.18.5
• Moved VCU encoder/decoder clock settings to vcu-modules
• Updated VCU device tree node definition with updated clock name sequence and index
• Support for 44.1k & 48k sampled rate audio on PS DisplayPort
  • Compliant with IEC60958

VMK180

• PCIe TRD updated to 2022.1

VCK190

• Quad Sensor Platform: Demonstrate Semantic Segmentation as well as object detection on four video feed from image sensors
• Single Sensor Platform: Demonstrate face detect on video feed coming from image sensor
• HDMI Platform: Demonstrate 4k image processing using AIE
• MRMAC Quad Client 4x 10/25G MRMAC Switching Functionality
• MRMAC IEEE 1588 time stamping

ZCU106

• Legacy VCU TRDs upgradation to 2022.1 tools
• New design Module: VCU processing YUV 4:4:4 format

• Annual software stack version updates
• Linux kernel 5.15, Yocto Project 3.4 Honister
• Additional device driver support for Kria SOM hardware features
• Ubuntu distribution support updated to 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)
• VCU and Multimedia design updates

Yocto Components

• Update to Yocto Project version 3.2 Gatesgarth release notes https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/message/51262
• Jupyterlab update to 3.0.1 and new extension for ipywidgets.
• Integrate OSPI-DM package
• Integrate Adaptive SoC cockpit and SOM utilities (xmutil, platformstats, dfx-mgr, ...),
  • See https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/1641152513/Kria+K26+SOM#SOM-Utilities for details.
• fpgamanger_custom / fpgamanager_dtg class updates for PL firmware packaging and deployment

PetaLinux

• The Zynq MP and Versal PetaLinux BSPs boot to tinyram based rootfs and the switch to ext based full rootfs. the default rootfs config is for full rootfs on ext4.
  • ZCU102, ZCU104 and ZCU106 all have now Vitis enabled design and XSA.
  • New ZCU670 BSP is available.
  • PetaLinux tool has distro boot support for MicroBlaze.
  • PetaLinux uses bitbake instead of devtool during config by default.

AI Engine Debugging

• SYSFS nodes for AIE status dump.

FSBL, PLM, and BootGen (Boot)

• PLM support to receive DDR image store from run-time application
• Permission and check for one subsystem to manage lifecycle of other subsystem
• Event management notification support added in different software layers
• Add a CRC value on IPI messaging going to/from the PLM
• XilSecure Client support for bare-metal applications
• Subsystem restart success indication to PLM
• PLM periodic check to ensure PSM is alive
• Boot Image creation wizard for Versal added in Vitis

PLM (Runtime)

• (PLM) NOC runtime clock gating when NOC is not in use
• (PLM) Keepalive with PSM for FuSa
• (PLM) Subscribe/Notify for system errors – enhancements to support with kernel

4U-Boot

• Upgrade to v2021.01
• Block protection commands support in U-Boot for Micron SPI flash devices.
• zynqmp mmio_read and zynq MP mmio_write commands are available to access secure registers from U-Boot.

4Arm Trusted Firmware

• Event management interface support added in ATF
• Arm Trusted Firmware v2.4

Linux

• Update to Linux Kernel - 5.10.x
• VFIO framework support – allow userspace applications to map virtual memory into IOVA addresses
• DMABUF and DMA Fence support – allow userspace applications to directly manage kernel space memory for buffer sharing between applications and drivers
• Rebase patches available

FreeRTOS

• Upgraded FreeRTOS version to 10.4.3

Linux Device Drivers

• Updated AXI Ethernet Driver to support all Linux ethtool features
• Added Linux EDAC driver support for Versal

Bare-metal Drivers

• Bare-metal driver for AXI Timer (Versal ACAP)
• Change ULPI reset logic in DWC3 driver

Libraries

• Updated open source libraries: binutils (2.35), gcc (10.2), gdb (9.2), glibc (2.32), newlib (3.3), Device Tree Compiler - v1.6.0

Xen Hypervisor

• Updated to Xen Hypervisor - 4.14
• Dynamic assignment of PL blocks (including DMA masters) to new Virtual Machines
  • Program PL at runtime with FPGA Manager, then assign the new blocks to new VMs
• Support for Xen PV drivers in Xen Cache Coloring configurations (PV network, PV block, etc.)
• New Xen user guide. Link: https://xilinx-wiki.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/A/pages/18842530/XEN+Hypervisor.
• PDF format: Xen User Guide

Software Stack Update

• Arm: ATF v.2.4
• Yocto Project: 3.2 Gatesgarth
• Denx: U-boot v2021.01
• Xen: v4.14
• Linux: v5.10.x

Zynq™ UltraScale+™ Multimedia and Video Codec Unit

General VCU Updates

• HLG (Hybrid Log Gamma) support in VCU
• Live video pipeline demonstrating Low Latency Phase2 mode @ Ctrl SW
• NTSC Resolution (486i) Enhancement
• Dynamic IDR frame insertion for Pyramidal GOP
• IDR slice type enhancements
• Monochrome (GRAY8/GRAY10) support @ GStreamer
• VCU PL DDR4 Controller IP Enhancements: Provides mechanism to user to add DDR custom part

VCU TRD Designs (ZCU106)

• HLG support Full pipeline
• SDI Rx (HLG) à Encode à Decode à SDI Tx (HLG)

VCU Region of Interest (ROI) TRD (ZCU106)

• Avnet Quadsensor camera input
• Based on Vitis AI v1.4

4Power Advantage Tool: (ZCU111, ZCU208, ZCU216, (Adaptive SoC): VCK190, VMK180)

• Expanding the support of Power Advantage Tool to new tool releases, production silicon, and new products
• Adaptive SoC Python libraries to integrate power measurement into TRDs and demos

Mixed Security: Disable Lower Security Power Management Master

• Can disable lower security APU power management for Mixed Security support
• Can disable lower security APU reset
• Integrated tool support via flag selections

Versal Power Domains: FPD, System Power Domain

• Tool and architecture building blocks for Deep Sleep in upcoming release.

Board Evaluation and Management (BEAM) Tool: VCK190, VMK180

• Out-of-the-box experience. Board configuration and test.
• Easy access to Dev/Demo dashboards: Versal Power Tool, Adaptive Soc Cockpit, Power Management Dash (Beta)

Power Advantage Tool (SC): VCK190, VMK180

• Independent from Versal so can be mixed-and-matched with TRDs/Demos/Customer Designs
• Integrated Adaptive Soc setup with BEAM Tool, video demo, cut-and-paste Python customization Wiki

Adaptive SoC Cockpit (Security updated for public)

• Easy view and editing of Versal registers. Plotting and file features.
• Corresponds with Register documentation.
• Building block for System Controller IP Dashboards.

Power Management Dashboard

• Beta release shows the power state of domains and islands at-a-glance, GUI allows future expansion to Clocks and Performance.
• Independent from Versal so can be mixed-and-matched to view PM state of any Versal application

HSDP/SmartLynq+ EDT and Video

• EDT for SmatLynq+ “System Design Example for High-Speed Debug Port with SmartLynq+ Module
  • https://xilinx.github.io/Embedded-Design-Tutorials/master/docs/index.html

Debug PCIe

• PS High speed debug over PCIe interface in Early Access.
• PL (Chipscope) High Speed Debug over PCIe Interface in Early access
• PS + PL debug over PCIe Early Access.

Soft Aurora HSDP Example

• Example design released in CED store.
• https://github.com/Xilinx/XilinxCEDStore/tree/2021.1/ced/Xilinx/IPI/hsdp_ced

VCK190 / VMK180 (Versal™)

• VMK180 TRDs
  • VMK180 Multimedia TRD (end June)
  • VMK180 PCIE TRD (end June)
• VCK190
  • VCK190 Ethernet TRD(end July)
  • VCK190 Single Sensor TRD with DPU(end July)
  • VCK190 Quad Sensor TRD with DPU (end July)
  • VCK190 HDMI TRD with AI Tiler and Stitches (end July)

BEAM Tool

• New beta rollout of BEAM Tool (System Controller Image) for VCK190 and VMK180 which includes
  • Power Advantage tool
  • Board Tests
  • Board Configuration
• Production by end September

Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC

• Updates to RF DC Evaluation Tool for RFSoC Gen1, Gen2 and Gen3
• Updates to PetaLinux BSP for RFSoC Gen1, Gen2 and Gen3
• Production support for RFSoC Gen 3

• PetaLinux Tools – Download the PetaLinux tools from the AMD Download Center
  • Support for GCC 8 series toolchain
  • Host OS Support
    • Red Hat/CentOS - 7.4, 7.5, 7.6
    • Ubuntu - 16.04.5 LTS, 18.04 LTS
  • BSP Support
    • SP701 (Spartan 7) – Initial board support
    • ZCU1275 (Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC) – Ethernet connectivity via FMC add-in card and TFTP boot support via Uboot
    • ZCU1285 (Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC) – Lounge Access Only

All sources available on the AMD GitHub page: https://github.com/Xilinx

• Arm Trusted Firmware v2.0 - https://github.com/Xilinx/arm-trusted-firmware
• Xen Hypervisor v4.11 - https://github.com/Xilinx/xen
• U-Boot v2019.01 - https://github.com/Xilinx/u-boot-xlnx
• Linux 4.19 LTS - https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-xlnx
• Yocto v2.6.1 (Thud)
  • https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx
  • https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-xilinx-tools
  • https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-petalinux

Bootloader and Firmware Updates

• FSBL Updates
  • Vivado support for DIMM SPD data on AMD evaluation boards
  • Use PSU_DYNAMIC_DDR_CONFIG_EN Tcl parameter to enable
• PMUFW Updates
  • Update to version 1.6
  • PMUFW safety assessment assessments are ongoing with planned completion by July 2019

U-Boot and ARM Trusted Firmware

• U-Boot Updates
  • USB 3.0 host support
  • Multi-Master I2C support
  • XilSecure-based SHA and RSA operations
  • Flash device updates