Cyclone V SoC Preloader will not run bare metal app

Thanks for the information!!

The missing part in my "puzzle" was the placement of the image in the memory layout.

I'm using mkimage for generating the 'img' file, and since it adds 0x40 bytes of header it was important to update the linker where I'd like the actual code to begin.

After aligning that, the preloader was launching my application. I didn't invest in trying to launch my application from uboot.