AMD-Xilinx introduced a Linux-based robotics starter kit earlier this year with the Xilinx Kria KR26 SOM with Zynq Ultrascale+ (equipped with 4 Cortex-A53 cores and Mail graphics). Although the SOM is focused on robotics, it has a DisplayPort port. So Canonical has been working this summer to make it compatible with the Wayland-powered GNOME desktop environment.
AMD-Xilinx’s current officially announced distribution for this robotics development kit is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and ROS 2. AMD and Canonical have been working together to ensure that the Ubuntu desktop will run well on this Arm-based motherboard. Canonical has been working on changes/fixes to allow GNOME Wayland sessions to run on the Kria KR260.
Work on the upcoming GNOME 43.1 has reached the end of the changes, and the upstream GNOME with the Mutter Wayland synthesizer is now compatible with the Mali graphics processor of the Xilinx Kria KR260. Renowned Canonical engineer Daniel van Vugt is responsible for this improvement to GNOME, which has been integrated in GNOME 43.1.
In addition, they have hand-picked fixes for the Mutter 42.6 package so that support can be found in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with the latest stable release update. the Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit retails for $349 and is currently showing a 16-week lead time.
