This page contains release notes for the Altera GSRD (Golden System Reference Design) v16.0.

Release Notes

GSRD

• SoCKit GSRD has been updated to use ACDS 16.0 and SoC EDS 16.0

GSRD now uses GHRD that is shipped as part of SoC EDS.

Linux

This Linux BSP release supports the SoCKit 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 that the preloader and u-boot are built from the same commit.

Here are the new features and enhancement done for 16.0 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-16.0-bin.tar.gz	SoCKit Binaries Archive	bbbcccd2b5a11110da7acc899552945e
ghrd	sockit_ghrd_16.0.tar.gz	SoCKit GHRD Archive	7f637cf02f7b188d1a913ba9ce93f0e5
src	boot.script	U-Boot script	1aced228466670edcce432afc022ac6c

The following documents are also part of the release:

Document	Description
GSRD v16.0 - Release Notes - Arrow SoCKit Edition (this webpage)	Release Notes
GSRD v16.0 - User Manual - Arrow SoCKit Edition	User Manual

The SoCKit precompiled binaries archives (linux-sockit-gsrd-16.0-bin.tar.gz ) contain the following files:

Cyclone V File Name	Description
sockit-gsrd-16.0-rootfs.ext3	Root filesystem in EXT3 format
sockit-gsrd-16.0-rootfs.tar.xz	Root filesystem as compressed tarball
preloader-mkpimage.bin	Preloader image
sockit-gsrd-16.0-sdcard.img.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
zImage	Compressed Linux kernel image

U-boot, Linux kernel and Yocto source packages are also provided through the git trees at https://github.com/altera-opensource, as shown in the table below.

Component	Git address	Branch	Tag
Linux	linux-socfpga.git	socfpga-3.10-ltsi
U-Boot	u-boot-socfpga.git	socfpga_v2013.01.01
Angstrom	angstrom-socfpga.git	angstrom-v2014.12-socfpga_gsrd15.1
Ref Designs	linux-refdesigns.git	socfpga-16.0	ACDS16.0_REL_GSRD_PR