Encapsulate Xilinx PetaLinux tools 14.04 into docker image

Versions

• PetaLinux version: 2014.4
• Base image: Ubuntu:16.04

Features

• Environment variables are set, so no need to source settings.sh on launch.
• The default working directory is /workspace, you can mount a volume to there to save your data.

Build image

You can use build-image.sh to build the image, which set up a HTTP server using python on where PetaLinux tools installer is, and do docker build to build image. The first parameter of this script is the directory of PetaLinux installer. There are two build-arg in the Dockerfile, one is installer_url, which is set by build-image.sh using IP of docker network bridge, another is install_dir, which is /opt by default.

Run test

To run a container:

docker run -ti -v /path/to/projects:/workspace xaljer/petalinux:2014.4

in the container:

petalinux-create -t project -s <path-to-bsp> -n <project-name>
cd <project-name>
petalinux-build  # this will take a long time

TODOs

• alias can also be added to simplify some frequently-used commands, however, do the alias on host like docker exec bash -c '<commands>' may more convenient.

More help

• I uploaded this image to docker hub, you can download via:

  docker pull xaljer/petalinux:2014.4

• More details for the Dockerfile and build process are recorded in my blog, which is written in Chinese.

PetaLinux reference

ug1144-petalinux-tools-reference-guide