Hi Gianni, Sorry you are having issues getting started. Thanks for taking the time to go through the material and identify the problem areas where the documentation can be updated/improved/clarified. New year, new goals :)
When I wrote the tutorial our BYU gitlab repository is where I was pointing interested folks to get started. I am still pushing to and staging current work and changes to that BYU gitlab repo (DAC, multi-tile/board synch, etc.) but for now the support that is covered in the tutorials has been merged back to casper-astro/mlib_devel/m2019a. The issue you are having is a Git Large File Storage issue. I am not sure how you may be getting that issue with `rfsocs/devel` I thought I had fixed that and have tested building from my gitlab instance several times from different machines with clean versions of the repo. But, looks like I need to poke around some more and is probably specific to my Gitlab instance, you shouldn’t have that problem if you clone from mlib_devel GitHub. I would try that first. As you noticed there are typo’s in the documentation the branch name `rfsoc/devel` >> `rfsocs/devel`. This `rfsocs/devel` is where everything will go before going back to casper-astro. There are also several stale branches, the `rfsocs/zcu216` is stale, R2020b will work with rfsocs but turns out what I didn’t realize is that the main support for mlib_devel (like the FFT) is on m2019a and so I need to roll back and export the R2020b blocks to R2019a to match `casper-astro/mlib_devel/m2019a. Just need to cleanup and remove those stale branches. So to recap and answer your question more directly: Start with trying `m2019a` from `casper-astro/mlib_devel`, and the remaining requirements on that getting started with rfsoc page are correct: Compatible Linux host operating system (tested on RHEL 7.9, 8.4 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 20.04 LTS) Vivado 2020.2 Matlab 2019a (with Simulink) Python 3 environment If `m2019a` still gives you problems let me know and I can keep helping debug this. Best, Mitch > On Jan 4, 2022, at 1:52 AM, Gianni Comoretto <giovanni.comore...@inaf.it> > wrote: > > I have a ZCU111 board and I am trying to use it with Casper. > I followed the instructions in the "getting started with RFSOC" page. > > https://casper-toolflow.readthedocs.io/projects/tutorials/en/latest/tutorials/rfsoc/tut_getting_started.html > > I was able to compile and configure the board, so it can be accessed e.g. > with SSH at casper@board_ip_address. I can connect to the board using > casperfpga as described in the tutorial. > > I cloned the git repository > https://gitlab.ras.byu.edu/alpaca/casper/mlib_devel but I am confused on the > requirements on OS, Python, and tools. > > I cannot check out the branch rfsoc/devel (not existing). > > Branch rfsocs/devel fails to check out as the LFS file > jasper_library/template_projects/pcie/top_adm_pcie_9h7.xpr.zip fails to load > (Repository or object not found). Same happens with rfsoc/devel/dac > > Branch rfsocs/zcu216 uses Matlab R2020b, which is not supported by Vivado 2020 > > Branch master, or zcu111, is bound to python2. I use linux Ubuntu 20, which > by default does not support py2. yaml calls are outdated and scripts appear > very old anyway. > > Could I have a list of which git branch and tool version (Python, Vivado, > Matlab) to use? > > Gianni Comoretto > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/a8574ca1-4657-32c4-a06f-8baf966c7baa%40inaf.it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "casper@lists.berkeley.edu" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to casper+unsubscr...@lists.berkeley.edu. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/lists.berkeley.edu/d/msgid/casper/F0930A46-CDE1-482B-808B-3F662DBB527B%40byu.edu.
