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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

provided SPL prevents Linux from booting

Hello all, I'm attempting to do some work at the SPL/U-Boot level, and am finding that when replacing the SPL preloader, it boots U-Boot OK, but when U-Boot passes control to zImage, it hangs. ...
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Altera_Forum
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8 years ago

Well, I'm not a Qsys user, so I wouldn't know where to start looking for an SPL Qsys project file. Regarding the clocks, I did use U-Boot, after SPL2, to change all of the clocks settings to what they would have been had SPL1 run. Same problem.

I should be able to pick up the code that Terasic used to build SPL, and build it myself. Then I could introduce the changes I want. I'm assuming that the Terasic version of SPL is in:

.../SystemCD/Demonstrations/SOC_FPGA/de1_soc_GHRD/software/spl_bsp/

Does anyone know if that's right?

Terasic?