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JFrye2
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6 years ago

Programming CycloneV FPGA from U-Boot SPL

I have a DE1-SoC board from Terasic. I am trying to boot a Linux kernel that can talk to the hardware in the FPGA portion. I am trying to verify that my FPGA is programmed during the boot cycle. I am...
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FawazJ_Altera
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6 years ago

Hello,

We cannot combine uboot with rbf file for Cyclone V SoC devices.

The rbf file should be available inside the FAT partition. After that, you can load this rbf file from uboot and uboot will configure the FPGA for you. The scr script is needed to automate uboot commands.

We recommend to use the uboot from this link:

http://github.com/altera-opensource/u-boot-socfpga

Thank you