Intel® Arria® 10 SoC HPS I2C not functioning in the latest u-boot-socfpga-v2021.04 for Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA when enabling I2C using GHRD

Description

Due to a problem in the u-boot-socfpga-v2021.04 for Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA, U-boot hang after enabling I2C in "./configs". 

After enabling the I2C in u-boot-socfpga-v2021.04 for Intel® Arria® 10 SoC FPGA, you might encounter error when booting the kernel, "Starting kernel …".

Resolution

A patch is available to fix this problem. Download and install patch 0002-debug-i2c-kernel-fix.patch.