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GregD
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4 years ago

Arria 10 - FPGA Boot

Hello. I am working on an Arria 10 project. Using ARM development studio and USB-Blaster I can load and run u-boot, do an NFS mount of the rootfs, and program the eMMC. Afterward, the board successfu...
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sstrell
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4 years ago

A .sof file cannot include this. It's strictly for programming the FPGA. You need a drive image that includes the .sof along with u-boot, etc.

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    GregD
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    4 years ago

    Thanks for the response.

    Currently, for this product, there is a .sof that production uses that runs u-boot v2014.10 when in boot-from-FPGA.

    ~/intelFPGA/21.1/nios2eds/nios2_command_shell.sh \
    quartus_pgm -c 1 -m jtag -o "p;boardCheckEmmcProg.sof"

    I am trying to recreate boardCheckEmmcProg.sof with newer u-boot v2021.04 but I do not know how to create the hex file that our FPGA engineer needs to create the .sof.

    My question:

    Which u-boot binary to use? u-boot-dtb.bin?

    How to convert to hex? arm-linux-gnueabi-objcopy?