This page contains release notes for the Altera Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals (Golden System Reference Design) v15.0.

Release Notes

Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals

• SoCKit GSRD has been updated to use ACDS 15.0 and SoC EDS 15.0

GSRD 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: Arrow SoCKit Rev B, C and E
• 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 15.0 Preloader and U-Boot:

Preloader and u-boot is similar to GSRD 14.0.2

Release Contents

The GSRD sources and prebuilt binaries can be downloaded by clicking on the links below.

Folder	File	Description	MD5SUM
bin	linux-sockit-gsrd-15.0-bin.tar.gz	SoCKit Binaries Archive	05224f2f9afd99313871ba57b8ce4347
ghrd	sockit_ghrd_15.0.tar.gz	SoCKit GHRD Archive	ede61e2bf4d9cab23bbb01a920af6fd3
src	boot.script	U-Boot script	bf126af8091bfb18745beab7ebae9ca2
^	sockit_patch.tar.gz	SoCKit customisation files	1dea36dbfe2169f1c7e883ffee5570c6

The following documents are also part of the release:

Document	Description
GSRD v15.0 - Release Notes - Arrow SoCKit Edition	Release Notes
GSRD v15.0 - User Manual- Arrow SoCKit Edition	User Manual

The SoCKit precompiled binaries archives (linux-sockit-gsrd-15.0-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.xz	Root filesystem as compressed tarball
preloader-mkpimage.bin	Preloader image
sd_image_sockit_20150228.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-3.10-ltsi	ACDS15.0.1_REL_GSRD_UPDATE1_PR
U-Boot	u-boot-socfpga.git	socfpga_v2013.01.01	ACDS15.0.1_REL_GSRD_UPDATE1_PR
Angstrom	angstrom-socfpga.git	angstrom-v2014.12-socfpga_gsrd15.0	ACDS15.0.1_REL_GSRD_UPDATE1_PR
Ref Designs	linux-refdesigns.git	socfpga-15.0	ACDS15.0.1_REL_GSRD_UPDATE1_PR