--- Quote Start ---
they selected me to test run the board
--- Quote End ---
Who?
If you have a schematic of the board, then you should be able to do anything you like. Without a schematic, you're in trouble.
I'm not sure why you are talking about writing a compiler. You do not need to write one; the ARM GCC compiler tools should work fine. The information you need is the memory map (or device tree). The Altera Quartus tool is needed to first define your SoC system (combination of hard processor system plus non-FPGA pin mux/functions) and your FPGA logic. Somewhere in that process the tools generate a device tree (or something that can be converted into a device tree). Using that, you should be able to boot U-boot to initialize the hardware, and then boot Linux. The Altera SoC postings on the U-Boot mailing list indicate there is some level of "generic" board support, so the Lark board might be able to boot a simple image.
Cheers,
Dave
Honored Contributor
