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Building uboot for cyclone V SoC

Hello, We want to build boot image for customized cyclone V SoC board. We are following the below document, using Quartus Prime 22.1 Standard Edition on Ubuntu 20.04 system, https://www.rocketb...
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  • tehjingy_Altera's avatar
    tehjingy_Altera
    1 year ago

    Hi Snehal


    Just to update the forum case.

    The missing steps from the RBO page are the steps below:


    1.Step to convert the sof to rbf. You could use the command below to convert the sof.

    quartus_cpf -c -o bitstream_compression=on soc_system.sof soc_system.rbf


    2.Missing u-boot.scr could be gotten from the gsrd page.

    https://releases.rocketboards.org/2025.03/gsrd/c5_gsrd/u-boot.scr


    3.Place both rbf and the u-boot.scr in the sdcard partition 1 (sdfs)


    Regards

    Jingyang, Teh


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tehjingy_Altera
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1 year ago

Hi


Sorry for the late reply.


If you are using the latest in the repo, there might be some bugs that was recently uploaded.

In the uboot repository, could checkout the branch "git checkout -b test-bootloader -t origin/socfpga_v2024.04" .



Regards

Jingyang, Teh


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    1 year ago

    Hello JingyangTeh,

    Thanks for the response.

    Please check the steps below,

    1) git clone https://github.com/altera-opensource/u-boot-socfpga

    2) git checkout -b test-bootloader -t origin/socfpga_v2022.10

    3) cd arch/arm/mach-socfpga/cv_bsp_generator/

    4) python cv_bsp_generator.py -i path/hps_isw_handoff/soc_system_hps_0 -o ~/software/bootloader/u-boot-socfpga/board/altera/cyclone5-socdk/qts

    5) cd arch/arm/mach-socfpga/cv_bsp_generator/

    6) export CROSS_COMPILE=~/software/gcc-arm-11.2-2022.02-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-

    7) make socfpga_cyclone5_defconfig

    make -j 48

    Error message:

    ./tools/mkimage: unsupported type Altera SoCFPGA CV/AV preloader
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.spl:426: spl/u-boot-spl.sfp] Error 1
    make: *** [Makefile:2081: spl/u-boot-spl] Error 2
    make: *** Deleting file 'spl/u-boot-spl'

    Thanks,

    snehal_p

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    snehal_p
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    1 year ago

    Hello JingyangTeh,

    Please PFA error message

    https://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/BuildingBootloaderCycloneVAndArria10#Appendix_45_Building_Linux_Binaries

    this document is suggesting to use uboot branch 2022.04, but I'm getting below error.

    Can you please help with the issue.


    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:104: tools/dumpimage] Error 1
    make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:104: tools/mkimage] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:104: tools/fit_info] Error 1
    make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.host:104: tools/fit_check_sign] Error 1
    make: *** [Makefile:1900: tools] Error 2

    Thanks,

    snehal_p