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1 month ago

HPS First Boot Configuration for Agilex 7

Dear Community, I'm developing a design using Agilex 7 on Quartus Pro 24.2. I'm a bit confused on the parameter settings I need for the HPS (and its EMIF) and my Quartus project settings in order to...
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    1 month ago

    Hi EstebanVV_Altera​  ,

    Thanks for providing those design files. Now my build flow generates two files with .rbf extension, which are ProjectName.core.rbf and ProjectName.hps.rbf. I would have expected to see a core and periph.rbf files instead, as it's also commented out so in the qcpg.options.hlp file located in QuartusInstallFolder/quartus/common/flow/qaf/. I can see the line below on line 34 of that file, emphasis on the 'and'. It doesn't mention anything about hps.rbf file.

    # To split a .sof into .periph.pof, .periph.jic, .periph.rbf, .periph.ttf, or .periph.hexout and .core.rbf

    To eliminate the possibility of me having an error in my pfg_commands.txt file, here is its content:

    -c -o hps=ON -o hps_path=u-boot/u-boot-spl-dtb.hex -o compression=ON output_files/ProjectName.sof output_files/ProjectName.rbf

    Kind regards

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      EstebanVV_Altera
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      1 month ago

      Hi,

      Lets go back a couple of steps. 

      Are you using "HPS First" flow?

      Are you trying to boot Linux or a "bare-metal" application?

      Please answer this to have a wider picture of what you are trying to do.

      ~E.V.

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        1 month ago

        Hi,

        I'm using an HPS-First flow to boot a Linux application