Release Notes
GSRD
- Arrow SoCKitGSRD has been updated to ACDS14.0 code base using ACDS14.0 tools and software release.
- Arrow SoCKitGHRD is upgraded to support rev B and C boards and the new QSPI flash component
- DTC is no longer released as part of SoCEDS. User can generate the DTB from sopcinfo using sopc2dts.
Note: Do not use the GHRD that is part of SoC EDS with the GSRD. Always use the GHRD that is delivered as part of GSRD.
Linux
This Linux BSP release supports the Arrow SoCKit, and provides the following for the CycloneV SoC:
- Linux kernel v3.13
- Drivers: I2C, LCD, EEPROM, RTC, Ethernet, USB (Host), Watchdog, SD/MMC, QSPI, DMA, FPGA Manager, and FPGA Bridges
- Boards: Arrow SoCKit (Rev B, Rev C and later).
- U-Boot 2013.01
- Linaro's GCC 4.7 2012.11
Preloader & U-Boot
Here are the new features and enhancement done for 14.0 Preloader and U-Boot:
New Features
- Supported Denali NAND controller
- Enabled Preloader program FPGA from SDMMC FAT partition
- Enabled I2C support for U-Boot
- Enabled option to get EMAC address from EEPROM
- Added DMA PL330 support
- Added SDRAM ECC initialization using DMA
- Added Spansion flash support
Enhancement
- Enhanced QSPI boot performance
- Enhanced SDMMC boot performance
- Enhanced FPGA programming time within U-Boot
- Enhanced Preloader and U-Boot to use THUMB2
- Enhanced Preloader to load U-Boot from FAT as default
- Enhanced Cyclone V MPU clock to 925MHz
- Enhanced Arria V MPU clock to 1050MHz
- Enhanced Arria V SDRAM to 533MHz
- Enhanced QSPI driver addressing mode
- Enhance Preloader and U-Boot to auto calculate SDRAM size
- Enhanced Preloader SDRAM memory test
- Enhanced Preloader to display clock info
- Enhanced drivers to use derived clock value
- Moved board specific functions away from misc.c
- Enhanced fpga2sdram bridge release sequence
Release Contents
The GSRD sources and prebuilt binaries can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.
The following documents are also part of the release:
The SoCKit precompiled binaries archives (
linux-sockit-gsrd-14.01-bin.tar.gz ) contain the following files:
| Cyclone V File Name |
Description |
|---|
| sockit-gsrd-image.ext3 |
Root filesystem in EXT3 format |
| sockit-gsrd-image.tar.gz |
Root filesystem as compressed tarball |
| preloader-mkpimage.bin |
Preloader image |
| sd_image_sockit_20140902.tar.gz |
Compressed bootable SD card image |
| soc_system.dtb |
Device Tree Blob |
| soc_system.rbf |
Compressed FPGA configuration file |
| u-boot.scr |
U-boot script for configuring the FPGA |
| u-boot-sockit.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-3.13-rel14.0 |
ACDS14.0_REL_GSRD_PR |
| U-Boot |
u-boot-socfpga.git |
socfpga_v2013.01.01-rel14.0 |
ACDS14.0_REL_GSRD_PR |
| Yocto |
poky-socfpga.git |
danny-altera-rel |
ACDS14.0_REL_GSRD_PR |
Known Issues
| Issue |
Headline |
Description |
|---|
| 99507 |
i2c speed is slow |
Running @50KHz instead of 100KHz because onboard LCD does not support 100KHz |
| 103050 |
Transmit offloading on receive side doesn't produce a speed improvement |
Ethernet checksum calculation is not correctly offloaded from CPU to hardware |
| 112140 |
stmmac_tx_timeout() is very broken the linux ethernet driver |
The function stmmac_tx_timeout needs to be updated to properly follow the datasheet recommendations |
| 130597 |
move common qspi stuff to socfpga.dtsi |
Need to put the common QSPI parameters in the socfpga.dtsi instead of repeating them for each device |
| 209407 |
Clock Managers Reported from Linux Kernel are incorrect |
"$cat /sys/kernel/debug/clk/clk_summary” displays incorrect debug clocks, random values for disabled clocks |
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