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keloke98
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2 months ago

Arria 10 SoC Dev Kit Baremetal HPS examples issue & workflow

Hi, I recently acquired an Arria 10 SoC dev kit but I'm really struggling to run either the examples on embedded-software/bare-metal or the ones included in SoC EDS pro 20.1, trying to follow the ins...
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keloke98
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2 months ago

Hello Radu,
Were you able to run the example with DDR configuration and Ashling? Because I am stuck in the step 12:

12. To run debug-spl.ds. In Debugger Tab:

  • Select Run control to be Connect Only
  • Check Run debug initialization debugger script, and click the File System icon to browse for the script /a10_soc_devkit_ghrd/software/bootloader/debug-spl.ds

Click Debug button

Not sure where to use this debug-spl.ds because I just get:

Error in final launch sequence:

Error downloading the program to target!

Error downloading the program to target!

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2 months ago

I realized I cannot do everything on Windows, as compiling U-Boot does not work there. Installed WSL and compiled it there with instructions similar with the ones from https://altera-fpga.github.io/rel-25.3/embedded-designs/arria-10/sx/soc/boot-examples/ug-linux-boot-a10-soc/#boot-from-sd-card:

# install required pacakges
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install build-essential bison flex libssl-dev bc device-tree-compiler python3 python3-dev swig
 
# create top folder
mkdir a10-baremetal
cd a10-baremetal
export TOP_FOLDER=$PWD
 
# get toolchain
cd $TOP_FOLDER
wget https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu/14.3.rel1/binrel/arm-gnu-toolchain-14.3.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz
tar xf arm-gnu-toolchain-14.3.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz
rm arm-gnu-toolchain-14.3.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf.tar.xz
export PATH=`pwd`/arm-gnu-toolchain-14.3.rel1-x86_64-arm-none-linux-gnueabihf/bin:$PATH
export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabihf-
 
# get hardware design files
cd $TOP_FOLDER
mkdir a10_soc_devkit_ghrd && cd a10_soc_devkit_ghrd
wget https://releases.rocketboards.org/2025.10/gsrd/a10_gsrd/ghrd_10as066n2.sof
wget https://releases.rocketboards.org/2025.10/gsrd/a10_gsrd/hps.xml
 
# compile u-boot
cd $TOP_FOLDER
rm -rf u-boot-socfpga
git clone -b QPDS25.3_REL_GSRD_PR https://github.com/altera-fpga/u-boot-socfpga
cd u-boot-socfpga
./arch/arm/mach-socfpga/qts-filter-a10.sh \
$TOP_FOLDER/a10_soc_devkit_ghrd/hps.xml \
arch/arm/dts/socfpga_arria10_socdk_sdmmc_handoff.h
make clean && make mrproper
make socfpga_arria10_defconfig
make -j 24
cd ..

 

I prefer Linux, but WSL seems to do a good job too. Using Ubuntu inside WSL, on Windows 11.

I will continue in the afternoon.