MSGDMA ST-to-MM: Linux Driver Necessity & F2SDRAM Path Feasibility
Hello everyone, I am currently working on an MSGDMA implementation. I have verified that I can read the MSGDMA CSR and Descriptor registers via the LWH2F bridge using devmem2. My setup is configured in Streaming-to-Memory-Mapped (ST-to-MM) mode. I have two specific questions regarding this setup: 1、Is configuring the MSGDMA Linux kernel driver a mandatory condition for the hardware to function correctly? Is it possible to bypass the driver and configure the MSGDMA to start data transfer directly using devmem2 (user-space access)? 2、I noticed that some implementations write to the PS-side memory via the FPGA-to-HPS bridge. However, my design utilizes the F2SDRAM link, as indicated by the numbered sequence in the attached diagram. Could you please confirm if this architectural approach is feasible?
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 instructions for both of them, they seem to rely on a old version of SoC EDS which included within ARM DS-5 and the toolchain, but now SoC EDS & ARM DS are separated and I cannot build the examples. With the new applications the flow for using this examples should remain the same? I mean: use Pogrammer to program the included .sof inside ghrd (or generate a updated one) -> open ARM-DS from SoC-EDS with environmental variables assigned and build with new toolchain arm-none-eabi -> run from ARM-DS (can i without license?) Seems like most of the tools used for running this examples have been discontinued (for example ) so at this point I don't know which workflow should I actually follow. PD: finally I was able to generate de application.axf from this example Altera-SoCFPGA-HardwareLib-16550-CV-GNU with an old toolchain but I don't know how to program it without a license, for now I don't want to debug anything, just do some simple tests printing by uart
Agilex 5 EMAC GMII loopthrough: signals are not toggling in Fabric
I am trying to route GMII signals through the Agilex5 HPS to the Fabric. In the .dts I am using, I have the following settings for the two EMACs: &gmac0 { status = "okay"; mac-mode = "gmii"; phy-mode = "gmii"; // must be added, and if no PHY, then add fixed link //phy-handle = <&emac0_phy0>; max-frame-size = <9000>; fixed-link { speed = <1000>; full-duplex; }; mdio0 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; compatible = "snps,dwmac-mdio"; emac0_phy0: ethernet-phy@0 { reg = <0>; }; }; }; &gmac1 { status = "okay"; mac-mode = "gmii"; phy-mode = "gmii"; //phy-handle = <&emac1_phy0>; max-frame-size = <9000>; fixed-link { speed = <1000>; full-duplex; }; mdio0 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <0>; compatible = "snps,dwmac-mdio"; emac1_phy0: ethernet-phy@0 { reg = <0>; }; }; }; In the RTL I am connecting the two EMACs as followed: logic user_clk_pll_125, user_clk_pll_25, user_clk_pll_2_5; // 1G / 100M / 10M (* noprune *) logic [7:0] tx_dummy_counter; (* noprune *) logic emac0_mac_tx_clk_o_wire, emac0_mac_tx_clk_i_wire, emac0_mac_rx_clk_wire, emac0_mac_rst_tx_n_wire, emac0_mac_rst_rx_n_wire; (* noprune *) logic emac0_mac_txen_wire, emac0_mac_txer_wire, emac0_mac_rxdv_wire, emac0_mac_rxer_wire, emac0_mac_col_wire, emac0_mac_crs_wire; (* noprune *) logic [7:0] emac0_mac_rxd_wire; (* noprune *) logic [2:0] emac0_mac_speed_wire; (* noprune *) logic [7:0] emac0_mac_txd_o_wire; (* noprune *) logic [7:0] rx_dummy_counter; (* noprune *) logic emac1_mac_tx_clk_o_wire, emac1_mac_tx_clk_i_wire, emac1_mac_rx_clk_wire, emac1_mac_rst_tx_n_wire, emac1_mac_rst_rx_n_wire; (* noprune *) logic emac1_mac_txen_wire, emac1_mac_txer_wire, emac1_mac_rxdv_wire, emac1_mac_rxer_wire, emac1_mac_col_wire, emac1_mac_crs_wire; (* noprune *) logic [7:0] emac1_mac_rxd_wire; (* noprune *) logic [2:0] emac1_mac_speed_wire; (* noprune *) logic [7:0] emac1_mac_txd_o_wire; assign emac0_mac_rx_clk_wire = emac1_mac_tx_clk_o_wire; // 1G assign emac1_mac_rxdv_wire = emac0_mac_txen_wire; assign emac1_mac_rxer_wire = emac0_mac_txer_wire; assign emac1_mac_rxd_wire = emac0_mac_txd_o_wire; assign emac1_mac_col_wire = 1'b0; assign emac1_mac_crs_wire = 1'b0; assign emac0_mac_rx_clk_wire = emac0_mac_tx_clk_o_wire; // 1G assign emac0_mac_rxdv_wire = emac1_mac_txen_wire; assign emac0_mac_rxer_wire = emac1_mac_txer_wire; assign emac0_mac_rxd_wire = emac1_mac_txd_o_wire; assign emac0_mac_col_wire = 1'b0; assign emac0_mac_crs_wire = 1'b0; The GMII signals are exported from the Agilex HPS as followed: When the system boots, the following can be seen is dmesg: [ 1.443647] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: Adding to iommu group 0 [ 1.450679] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: IRQ eth_wake_irq not found [ 1.457291] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: IRQ eth_lpi not found [ 1.463542] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: RX VLAN HW Stripping [ 1.469741] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: SMTG Hub Cross Timestamp supported [ 1.477398] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: User ID: 0x76, Synopsys ID: 0x31 [ 1.484534] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: XGMAC2 [ 1.489489] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: DMA HW capability register supported [ 1.496943] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported [ 1.504396] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: COE Type 1 [ 1.509603] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: TX Checksum insertion supported [ 1.516623] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: TSO supported [ 1.522089] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer [ 1.530076] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: device MAC address 42:ca:f5:1e:55:80 [ 1.537533] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: Enabled L3L4 Flow TC (entries=16) [ 1.544737] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: Enabled RFS Flow TC (entries=10) [ 1.551847] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: TSO feature enabled [ 1.557831] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: SPH feature enabled [ 1.563815] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: TX COE limited to 2 tx queues [ 1.570665] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet: Using 40/40 bits DMA host/device width [ 1.581335] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: Adding to iommu group 1 [ 1.588338] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: IRQ eth_wake_irq not found [ 1.594945] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: IRQ eth_lpi not found [ 1.601179] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: RX VLAN HW Stripping [ 1.607380] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: SMTG Hub Cross Timestamp supported [ 1.614905] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: User ID: 0x76, Synopsys ID: 0x31 [ 1.622027] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: XGMAC2 [ 1.626982] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: DMA HW capability register supported [ 1.634436] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported [ 1.641890] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: COE Type 1 [ 1.647097] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: TX Checksum insertion supported [ 1.654117] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: TSO supported [ 1.659583] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer [ 1.667568] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: device MAC address 3e:47:0a:4f:7b:96 [ 1.675024] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: Enabled L3L4 Flow TC (entries=16) [ 1.682221] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: Enabled RFS Flow TC (entries=10) [ 1.689330] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: TSO feature enabled [ 1.695314] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: SPH feature enabled [ 1.701298] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: TX COE limited to 2 tx queues [ 1.708147] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet: Using 40/40 bits DMA host/device width [ 1.718293] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: Adding to iommu group 2 [ 1.725245] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: IRQ eth_wake_irq not found [ 1.731850] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: IRQ eth_lpi not found [ 1.738075] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: RX VLAN HW Stripping [ 1.744242] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: SMTG Hub Cross Timestamp supported [ 1.751730] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: User ID: 0x76, Synopsys ID: 0x31 [ 1.758854] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: XGMAC2 [ 1.763807] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: DMA HW capability register supported [ 1.771261] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: RX Checksum Offload Engine supported [ 1.778712] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: COE Type 1 [ 1.783917] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: TX Checksum insertion supported [ 1.790936] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: TSO supported [ 1.796400] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: Enable RX Mitigation via HW Watchdog Timer [ 1.804372] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: Enabled L3L4 Flow TC (entries=16) [ 1.811565] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: Enabled RFS Flow TC (entries=10) [ 1.818673] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: TSO feature enabled [ 1.824656] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: SPH feature enabled [ 1.830639] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: TX COE limited to 2 tx queues [ 1.837487] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet: Using 40/40 bits DMA host/device width ... [ 11.730428] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0 [ 11.747001] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-1 [ 11.770275] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-2 [ 11.778338] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-3 [ 11.782322] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-4 [ 11.787412] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-5 [ 11.790998] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-6 [ 11.796018] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-7 [ 11.813781] fpga_manager fpga0: Stratix10 SOC FPGA Manager registered [ 11.913063] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: PHY [stmmac-2:01] driver [Micrel KSZ9031 Gigabit PHY] (irq=POLL) [ 11.913393] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: No Safety Features support found [ 11.913478] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: IEEE 1588-2008 Advanced Timestamp supported [ 12.001908] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: registered PTP clock [ 12.007839] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: FPE workqueue start [ 12.007940] socfpga-dwmac 10830000.ethernet eth2: configuring for phy/rgmii-id link mode [ 12.155854] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0 [ 12.159161] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-1 [ 12.180998] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-2 [ 12.191086] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-3 [ 12.199787] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-4 [ 12.208205] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-5 [ 12.218464] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-6 [ 12.229854] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-7 [ 12.247722] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: No Safety Features support found [ 12.247967] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: IEEE 1588-2008 Advanced Timestamp supported [ 12.331440] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: registered PTP clock [ 12.332900] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: FPE workqueue start [ 12.332987] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: configuring for fixed/gmii link mode [ 12.343803] socfpga-dwmac 10820000.ethernet eth1: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control off [ 12.344209] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready [ 12.449807] of-fpga-region soc:base_fpga_region: FPGA Region probed [ 12.469882] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-0 [ 12.479649] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-1 [ 12.482568] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-2 [ 12.490255] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-3 [ 12.493314] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-4 [ 12.501735] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-5 [ 12.514200] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-6 [ 12.536765] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Register MEM_TYPE_PAGE_POOL RxQ-7 [ 12.582718] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: No Safety Features support found [ 12.583005] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: IEEE 1588-2008 Advanced Timestamp supported [ 12.591157] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: registered PTP clock [ 12.601012] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: FPE workqueue start [ 12.601201] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: configuring for fixed/gmii link mode [ 12.611650] socfpga-dwmac 10810000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up - 100Mbps/Full - flow control off [ 12.615095] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready ... (this log was from testing 100M, but the same occurs for 1G) In signal tap, no wires are toggled (even though it seems the output clocks are fine) Please help!
Validating ECC Functionality on Custom Agilex 5 SOM in Linux Kernel
We are now looking to validate ECC (Error Correction Code) functionality on our custom Agilex 5 System-on-Module (SOM) running Linux. Our objective is to ensure that ECC is correctly enabled and functioning across all relevant memory regions, and that error detection and correction mechanisms are properly integrated at the kernel level. Could you please provide guidance on the necessary kernel configurations, device tree modifications, and available tools or procedures to test and monitor ECC behavior on this platform? Any documentation or reference designs specific to Agilex 5 ECC support would be highly valuable.
SDRAM calibration failed.
Hello, after Enpirion stopped selling some of the parts we used on our board, we had to redesign it. We assembled ten boards, and on two of them, I’m now getting an SDRAM calibration error in U-Boot. I’d like to enable the SDRAM calibration report to understand the cause of the error. However, the described method of adding. #define RUNTIME_CAL_REPORT 1 in the sequencer_defines.h file didn’t work. I generated the files using the QTS filter script, but there was no change. Could you please tell me how to properly enable the SDRAM calibration report so I can debug the issue?25.3 PRO Release
Version: Release 25.3 PRO Quartus Build/TAG: B109/QPDS25.3_REL_GSRD_PR Release Date: October 10, 2025 Device Affected: Agilex™ 3, Agilex™ 5, Agilex™ 7, Startix® 10, Arria® 10 Release Type: Major release/Binary release Binary Release Path: http://releases.rocketboards.org/2025.10/ Major Features Released Support of GHRD 2.0 in Agilex™ 5 which includes foundational boot to Linux, ability to create compatible phase 2 bitstreams, parameterized HPS for maximum performance and best practices. Support of GSRD 2.0 Yocto layers for the Agilex 5 E-Series Premium DevKit with OOBE daughtercard for the GHRD 2.0 baseline design. Agilex 5 GSRD Development User Experience Improvement through KAS using a graphical/text interface to configure a limited number of high-level options on top of simplified Yocto recipes. - GSRD 2.0 with Kas Build System Support for running Agilex 5 Simics Simulation under the GSRD 2.0 framework. Booting from SD Card and QSPI is supported. - Exercising Simics Simulation from GSRD 2.0 Support GHRD and GSRD for Agilex™ M-Series PRQ HBM2e for DK-Sl-AGM039EA development kit. The GSRD is capable of booting to Linux. - Build the GSRD for DK-DEV-AGM039EA Hypervisor Multi-OS Support Example, demonstrating Linux and Zephyr running side-by-side in the HPS cluster. - HPS Xen Hypervisor GSRD System Example Design: Agilex™ 3 FPGA and SoC C-Series Development Kit Support for monitoring of SEU errors from the SDM in the HPS in Agilex™ 7. Add capability to measure the latency of Linux SMC calls. Support Nios V Lockstep application with a fail-safe mechanism
