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12 years ago

Problems with Yocto/Poky Linux on the Arrow SoC kit

Hi everybody, I have some problems with a self-built SD-card image to boot linux for the Arrow SoC kit. Using the image file provided by Terasic (find the link to get the image here [2]) everyt...
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12 years ago

The problem is solved:

- Cause: The preloader needs to take into account the pin/mux/hardware configuration of the targer board. The Altera boards differ in so many ways that the preloader can't work on a SoCKit board.

- Solution:

Generate your own preloader from the definitions in the SoCKit_Materials.zip in folder SoCkit/SoCkit_SW_lab_13.0/hps_isw_handoff/soc_system_hps_0/

The zip file is available from http://www.arrownac.com/solutions/sockit/ under the getting started tab.

To build the preloader you need the bsp-editor from soceds5. Follow the instructions given at several places to build and then make it.

Caveat: When you are using the Quartus tools in the current version (13.0sp1) you will get some compile errors (13.0 works).

If you are using 13.0sp1 you need to regenerate the handoff files with quartus from the SoCkit GHRD at http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/view/projects/sockitghrd.

Hope this helps.