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This page contains release notes for the Altera Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals (Golden System Reference Design) v14.0.2.

Release Notes

Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals

• CV SoCFPGA Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals and AV SoCFPGA Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals has been updated to use ACDS 14.0.2 and SoC EDS 14.0.2
• Linux build is now using Angstrom instead of Poky. Similar to Poky, Angstrom is Yocto compatible.

Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals now uses GHRD that is shipped as part of SoC EDS.

Linux

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

• Linux kernel v3.10 LTSi
• Drivers: I2C, LCD, EEPROM, RTC, Ethernet, USB (Host), Watchdog, SD/MMC, QSPI, DMA, FPGA Manager, and FPGA Bridges
• Boards: Cyclone V DevKit Rev D, Arria V DevKit Rev B
• U-Boot v2013.01

Preloader & U-Boot

It is highly recommended preloader and u-boot are built from the same commit.

Here are the new features and enhancement done for 14.0.2 Preloader and U-Boot:

Fixes since 14.0.2

• SDRAM controller no longer fails when accessing non-existent memory
• Supports SDRAM self-refresh preservation
• Fixed U-boot initialization code from accessing BSS section before relocation happen

Release Contents

The Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals sources and prebuilt binaries can be downloaded from https://releases.rocketboards.org/2014.09/gsrd.

Folder	File	Description
bin	linux-socfpga-gsrd-14.0.2-av-bin.tar.gz	Arria V Binaries Archive
^	linux-socfpga-gsrd-14.0.2-cv-bin.tar.gz	Cyclone V Binaries Archive
ghrd	av_soc_devkit_ghrd.tar.gz	Arria V <nop>GHRD Archive
^	cv_soc_devkit_ghrd.tar.gz	Cyclone V <nop>GHRD Archive
src	boot.script	U-Boot script
tools	make_sdimage.py	SD Card Python Script

The following documents are also part of the release:

Document	Description
GSRD v14.0.2 - Release Notes	Release Notes
GSRD v14.0.2 - User Manual	User Manual

The Cyclone V and Arria V precompiled binaries archives (linux-socfpga-gsrd-14.0.2-cv-bin.tar.gz and linux-socfpga-gsrd-14.0.2-av-bin.tar.gz) contain the following files:<!--| tbd | tbd | tbd|-→

Cyclone V File Name	Arria V File Name	Description
console-image-socfpga_cyclone5.tar.gz	console-image-socfpga_arria5.tar.gz	Generic Angstrom Root filesystem as compressed tarball
gsrd-console-image-socfpga_cyclone5.tar.gz	gsrd-console-image-socfpga_arria5.tar.gz	Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals Root filesystem as compressed tarball
preloader-mkpimage.bin		Preloader image
sdimage.img.gz		Compressed bootable SD card image
socfpga.dtb		Device Tree Blob
soc_system.rbf		Compressed FPGA configuration file
u-boot.scr		U-boot script for configuring the FPGA
u-boot-socfpga_cyclone5.img	u-boot-socfpga_arria5.img	U-boot image
vmlinux		Linux kernel ELF image
zImage		Compressed Linux kernel image

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

Component	Git address	Branch	Tag
Linux	linux-socfpga.git	socfpga-3.10-ltsi	ACDS14.0.2_REL_GSRD_PR
U-Boot	u-boot-socfpga.git	socfpga_v2013.01.01	ACDS14.0.2_REL_GSRD_PR
Angstrom	angstrom-socfpga.git	angstrom-v2013.12-socfpga_gsrd14.0.2	ACDS14.0.2_REL_GSRD_PR
Ref Designs	linux-refdesigns.git	socfpga-14.0.2	ACDS14.0.2_REL_GSRD_PR