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MathiasB
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4 years ago

[Arria 10SX] Fail to load QSPI flash using quartus_hps

Dear all, I have a simple design using the HPS on an Arria 10 AS048. The HPS is only present to load the PL configuration at boot time using u-boot. I generated a .rbf.img and a uboot-mkpimage.b...
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MathiasB
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4 years ago

Hi,

Thank you for the link.

However, I am a bit lost here. Since i am using Quartus pro 19.1, there seems to be differences with what is presented in the link.

For instance, when I run make to build u-boot, I do not have any "spl/u-boot-splx4.sfp". Also, I do not have this "board/altera/arria10-socdk/fit_spl_fpga.its" file for mkimage.

I tried again earlier and for some reason I managed to successfully run "quartus_hps -c 1 -o P -a 0x0 uboot-mkpimage.bin" (I did not verify if it *truly* worked, though). I had to try several times the same command before that.

Now I am trying to run "quartus_hps -c 1 -o P -a 0x720000 pl.rbf.img", but it fails just like shown in the image attached to my first message.

Do you think the type of file I am using is the cause?

Since the "percentage of loading" at which quartus_hps is never the same, I would guess it has something to do with an unreliable state of the HPS. Does the HPS have to be in a particular state (if that makes sense) for quartus_hps to run?