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9 years ago

Booting HPS from FPGA

Hello, has anyone managed to boot the whole u-boot image (Bootloader) from FPGA? If so, how did you do this? There are tutorials for booting the HPS from FPGA with U-Boot SPL. The tutori...
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9 years ago

You are right, I've not seen an example that does that - my guess is that the internal memory are probably too "precious" to be allocated for the whole bootloader. Technically though I don't see any limitation in doing so - except that you've to probably have to modify spl.c to point to the next offset that is located over the H2F bridge.