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TG_GER
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2 years ago

Arria10 FPGA config directly from TFTP

I have an ARRIA10 SoC FPGA, and the memory card need to supposed to be hardware write-protected. At the end only u-boot is present on the SD card. It should retrieve the FPGA configuration, kernel,...
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2 years ago

Hi Aik Eu,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes, but the goal is not to have a config on the SD card, as this is hardware write-protected and therefore no updates would be possible. Only the bootloader should be there. The rest via TFTP.

However, the peripheral is too large for the SDRAM to load it from the TFTP into the FPGA.

Is there a way to do a full config again later from Linux? Then I could leave the "old" config on the SD card and always reload the current one in the second step.

Here at this link:

Booting Altera SoC FPGA from Network using TFTP and NFS | Documentation | RocketBoards.org

this what i want to do.

there is a info with

"2/27/19 update: These procedures have been successfully tested on an Arria 10 board using the Achilles Dev Kit from REFLEX CES. [DN]"

But how does it works without enough RAM?!

thank,

TG