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Altera_Forum
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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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8 years ago

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Hello,

I finally managed to boot the whole U-boot from FPGA. I wrote a small custom IP-block which copies the U-boot binary from EPCQ to HPS DDR. Preloader code must be also modified to stall the boot process till the boot copying is done.

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Great news :) I understand that the code might be proprietary - perhaps you can list down some guidelines to those who would like to attempt the same thing in the future?