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2 years ago
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Stratix 10 SX SoC devkit quick start guide doesn't boot

Hello,

We bought the new Stratix 10 SX SoC devkit (H-Tile version).

We followed the quick start guide document but we have no message on the UART and no IP is request by DHCP on ethernet port.

We verified the board switch configuration to set all to the default setting.

We tried to build a new sdcard but we get the same comportment (nothing on UART or IP).

In the UserGuide document, we read: "it may be necessary to ensure the Intel MAX 10 System Controller internal flash contains the latest available design". We would like to check this point but in the "Intel Stratix 10 SX Soc Development Kit Installer Package" (H-Tile version) there is no “system_max10” folder. We saw this folder exist in (L-Tile version). Could we use the L-Tile version for our H-Tile version board concerning the Max 10 system controller ?

Or if there is some other recommendations to have the quick start guide working on our board?

Thanks for your help

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  • Convers's avatar
    Convers
    2 years ago

    Hello Aik,

    Finally we succeeded to boot the board from QSPI + SD card, U-boot first followed by Linux.

    The only thing we done to started successfully are :

    - Read the full QSPI content to a file (Default memory content when we received the board).

    - Write the QSPI flash with the file we read before (the QSPI should be the same, as we wrote it with the default content).

    -> After that the board booting, with some UART messages and a IP address get by the board.

    We doesn't understand what it solved the issue because we re-writed the QSPI with the content we read...

    However, the most important thing is now it works, and we are no more stuck to boot the board.

    After that, we followed the link below, and we are able to regenerate all the files and boot again the board with these new files.

    https://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/BuildingBootloaderStratix10

    Thanks for your help.

    Regards

    Anthony

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    aikeu
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    2 years ago

    Hi Convers,


    I think currently we can ignore the Linux part first and just need to expect the Uboot has no issue to load where uboot will definately has some UART logs from the beginning

    Can try to create the QSPI flash jic file to determine the memory structure in your board QSPIflsah following the Creating the Programming File Generator File from the document below, for this attempt we just need to consider the sof file and also the uboot:

    Also make sure to check the SW switches settings set before and after flashing the jic file from the document below:

    https://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/Stratix10SoCGSRDHTile#Building_the_QSPI_Version


    Thanks.

    Regards,

    Aik Eu


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    Convers
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    2 years ago

    Hello Aik,

    Thanks for your answer.

    As it is the "H-Tile version", there is no prebuilt binaries provided and we need to rebuild all.

    We didn't build the QSPI flash, but we builded the "FPGA SOF, with HPS Debug FSBL". We used that one to program the FPGA, as mentioned on this page: https://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/S10GSRDBootLinuxFromSDCard180

    Programming the FPGA by JTAG should replace the usage of QSPI flash and we arrive to the same point of booting linux.

    But in our case, we get always the same results : nothing on UART or IP.

    For information, we reflashed the Intel MAX 10 with the lastest design we found (factory_recovery folder from H-Tile Kit Installer Package). Nothing better for the results.

    Regards

    Anthony

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    aikeu
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    2 years ago

    Hi Convers,


    May I know is there any follow up on the issue?


    Thanks.

    Regards,

    Aik Eu


  • Convers's avatar
    Convers
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    2 years ago

    Hello Aik,

    Finally we succeeded to boot the board from QSPI + SD card, U-boot first followed by Linux.

    The only thing we done to started successfully are :

    - Read the full QSPI content to a file (Default memory content when we received the board).

    - Write the QSPI flash with the file we read before (the QSPI should be the same, as we wrote it with the default content).

    -> After that the board booting, with some UART messages and a IP address get by the board.

    We doesn't understand what it solved the issue because we re-writed the QSPI with the content we read...

    However, the most important thing is now it works, and we are no more stuck to boot the board.

    After that, we followed the link below, and we are able to regenerate all the files and boot again the board with these new files.

    https://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/Documentation/BuildingBootloaderStratix10

    Thanks for your help.

    Regards

    Anthony

  • aikeu's avatar
    aikeu
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    2 years ago

    Hi Convers,


    Good to hear that your issues has been resolved, I am glad that I was able to help.

    I will close the thread for now.


    p/s: If any answer from the community or Intel Support are helpful, please feel free to give best answer or rate 4/5 survey.


    Thanks.

    Regards,

    Aik Eu