Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorJust wanted to give a last update to this thread. After several weeks of attempting to get this to work I was finally able to get bare metal apps working but not with u-boot. U-boot never worked for me. I think the worst part about this is getting the same bare metal app running on Xilinx Zynq devices is totally trivial compared to my experience with Altera. Same goes for Linux on Xilinx Zynq devices. With the Xilinx tools and chips everything "just works" as you'd expect - no fuss. Here are my final tallies for getting bare metal and linux apps to work on Xilinx Zynq and Altera Soc devices (having the same amount of prior technical experience using both vendors chips):
- Xilinx Zynq Bare metal = 1 day - Xilinx Zynq Linux OS = 2 days - Altera SoC Bare metal = 3 weeks - Altera SoC Linux OS = 2 weeks I also find it pretty ridiculous that getting a full Ubuntu linux distribution working on an Altera SoC took _less_ time to get working than it did to get a bare metal app working. Absurd. The# 1 issue I ran into with the Altera SoC flow was the major lack of documentation and reference designs. Some of the reference designs worked but as soon as I tried to create my own design using the same steps nothing worked.
