This page contains release notes for the Altera Arria 10 GSRD (Golden System Reference Design) v15.0.1 Customer Beta.

Release Notes

Th Arria 10 GSRD is based on ACDS 15.0b143 and SoC EDS 15.0.1b40.

Important Note: The U-Boot Device Tree Generation is supported on both Linux and Windows host machines, but U-Boot compilation is supported only on Linux host machines.

Linux

This Linux BSP release supports the SoC Development Kit, and provides the following:

• Linux Kernel: v3.10LTSi
• Drivers: GPIO, I2C (+peripherals), SPI, UART, Ethernet, USB, SDMMC, SMP, FPGA (status), clocks
• Boards: Arria 10 DevKit Rev A

U-Boot

Uboot version used for Arria 10 is v2014.10, and provides the following:

• SD/MMC, DDR, Ethernet, FPGA (status, programming), I/O, clocks, resets

Release Contents

The GSRD sources and prebuilt binaries can be downloaded from https://releases.rocketboards.org/2015.04/gsrd.

Folder	File	Description
bin	linux-socfpga-gsrd-15.0.1-ies-a10-bin.tar.gz	Binaries Archive
tools	make_sdimage.py	SD Card Python Script

The GHRD is delivered as part of the SoC EDS 15.0.1b40 release, in the following folder: ~/altera/15.0/embedded/examples/hardware/a10_soc_devkit_ghrd

The following documents are also part of the release:

Document	Description
A10 GSRD v15.0 IES - Release Notes	Release Notes
A10 GSRD v15.0 IES - User Manual	User Manual

The precompiled binaries archive (linux-socfpga-gsrd-15.0ies-a10-bin.tar.gz) contains the following files:

File Name	Description
ghrd_10as066n2.dts	Linux Device Tree Source File
ghrd_10as066n2.sof	FPGA configuration file, in SOF format
ghrd_10as066n2.core.rbf	FPGA fabric configuration file, in RBF format
ghrd_10as066n2.periph.rbf	FPGA IO configuration file, in RBF format
gsrd-console-image-arria10.ext3	Root filesystem in EXT3 format
gsrd-console-image-arria10.tar.xz	Root filesystem as a compressed TAR file
sdimage.img	Complete, bootable SD card image
socfpga_arria10_socdk.dtb	Linux Device Tree Binary File
uboot_w_dtb-mkpimage.bin	U-Boot and U-Boot Device Tree combined image file, loadable by BootROM
vmlinux	Linux kernel executable
zImage	Linux kernel in compressed format

The U-boot and Linux kernel source packages are also provided through the git trees at http://git.rocketboards.org, as shown in the table below.

Component	Git address	Branch	Tag
Linux	linux-socfpga.git	socfpga-3.10-ltsi	rel_socfpga-3.10-ltsi_arria10_bringup_gsrd_ies
U-Boot	u-boot-socfpga.git	socfpga_v2014.10_arria10_bringup	rel_socfpga_v2014.10_arria10_bringup_gsrd_ies

Note that while U-Boot can be compiled from the git trees, it is strongly recommended to use the U-Boot that is part of the SoC EDS. This is because the U-Boot that comes with SoC EDS was tuned to match the handoff information from Quartus. Mixing and matching different versions of handoff information and U-Boot source code may lead to unpredictable results.

Known Issues

tbd