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malcolm_locke
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1 year ago

SD Card Boot

Hi, I have an Agilex 5 Modular Development Board which I can boot with the supplied SD Card. I have tried to update to the latest image at Index of /2025.04/gsrd/agilex5_mk_a5e065bb32aes1_gsrd/, H...
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RolandoS_Altera
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11 months ago

Hi Brian

I don't think we had drop the support of these devices, but the embedded software (including U-Boot) evolves from release to release. Sometimes, there are dependencies on using the correct component versions to boot successfully ( SDM FW included on Quartus, ATF. U-Boot SPL, U-Boot, Linux). So in our releases pages (https://github.com/altera-fpga/gsrd-socfpga/releases) we include the combinations of components that we validate. For GSRD page or any other page with instructions to build binaries, we have a version of the page for each one of the releases with the component version combinations that we know they work. For this pages, we switched from Rocketboards to https://altera-fpga.github.io/ some time ago. For Agilex 5, I think most of the versions are already in the new site.

Thanks

Rolando

  • BrianSune_Froum's avatar
    BrianSune_Froum
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    11 months ago

    @RolandoS_Altera

    I am confused what actually you are asking or confirming?

    For Das U-Boot 2025 01 and 04 had changed the SPL detection.

    While 2025 07 the stack is even changed which at this stage I can't make it boot on any Cyclone V device.

    For both Altera Git U-Boot or Das U-Boot I had confirmed 2025 01 04 and older revision all aligned excluded dts file.

    Aka modifications to boot properly on SD only platform.

    I had not followed any altera boot document nor the rocket forum b.c. the follow is not telling any backward compatibility.

    However it is actually allow on older "hps_isw_handoff" folder to reused on new Python script.

    So I am not sure what you are asking for.

    As far I can tell I have no idea why the 2025 07 cannot boot properly.

    There are too many patches on SPL and the stack change include start.S.