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Running Linaro or BusyBox or any linux on Zedboard for OpenCV application

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Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi everyone.

I have a project where my team has to grab images from a camera (USB) and then use motion detection to identify the coordinates of the moving object and we have to implement this on a Zedboard. Our current plan is to use OpenCV to grab the image and then use the programmable logic to implement the motion detection algorithm.

We are having trouble with trying to install Linux on the Zedboard . My question is do we need Linux on the pc to program the zedboard (to load linux into the zedboard). I tried looking at this Digilent guide

https://www.digilentinc.com/Data/Products/EMBEDDED-LINUX/ZedBoard_GSwEL_Guide.pdf

and this says that we need the ARM tools for Xilinx and here they use the "make ARCH=arm digilent_zed_defconfig"

so as far as I know we would need Linux for this on the PC right?

and also this guide http://svenand.blogdrive.com/archive/199.html#.VaFgPPlAqB1 does not do any such thing at all and does some simple steps. How is that possible? Can anyone please give me some pointers as to where I should start... and whether most I would need to install Vivado and Xilinx SDK tools on a Linux machine to do any sort of programming in this case (because I am using windows).

Thank you!!

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    0 zedhed over 10 years ago

    Hi elhiruka,

    The only thing that you would really need Linux for on your PC is to load an Ubuntu root file system onto your SD card to boot ZedBoard into Ubuntu desktop.  You don't even have to run Linux natively on your PC to do this, you can install it under a Virtual Machine which can make your life easier for some tasks.

    Those links you reference are pretty good but there is an even more thorough guide under the reference design/Tutorials page entitled "Ubuntu Desktop Linux":

    http://microzed.org/support/design/1521/11

    There is a 2013.4 version of this tutorial on that page which you might find more useful for what you are doing.

    Regards,

    -Kevin

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    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to zedhed

    Thank you very much... I will look into this guide

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