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Altera_Forum
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10 years ago

hps boot from fpga

I read the pages mentioned that boot from sd card and qspi is relatively about the same file structure, but if boot from fgpa, it is only able to place the uboot in the fpga and the rest of the boot ...
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8 years ago

Sorry for my misleading answer. It does not matter if your preloader is loaded from external memory or is embedded in the FPGA, you can still load u-boot external from memory connected to HPS or FPGA. In my case, I can boot from both.

It's easiest to use SPL as preloader. SPL is part of u-boot. You can also use MPL from Altera. Both works fine.

Check out this page: https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/socswws1introtoalterasocdeviceslab1preloader

Good luck!