Boot Linux With Precompiled Binaries

Booting Linux with Precompiled GSRD Binaries on Stratix 10 SoC

Overview

This page presents how to get Linux booted on Intel Stratix 10 SX SoC Development Kit, by using precompiled GSRD binaries. Refer to the other Getting Started Guides for details on how to build various GSRD components.

Prerequisites

The following are required:

• Linux Host PC - Ubuntu 16.04LTS was tested, but other versions should also work
• Internet Access - for downloading prebuilt files
• Quartus Pro Programmer 19.1 (either standalone installation or part of Quartus Pro 19.1 or SoC EDS pro 19.1)
• 4GB or larger MicroSD card
• Micro SD Card USB Writer
• Intel Stratix 10 SX SoC Development Kit (both the Production or ES versions are supported)
  • DDR4 Memory Card
  • OOBE HPS Peripheral Daughter Card
  • SDM QSPI Boot Flash Daughter Card with MT25QU02G

Components

The table below shows the images used by this guide, together with a link for direct download and a list of included components:

Image	Components	Download Link
SDM QSPI Image	FPGA Configuration	Production: ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vg_hps.jic.gz ES: ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vgs2_hps.jic.gz
^	HPS FSBL	^
HPS SD Card Image	HPS SSBL	sdimage.tar.gz
^	SSBL bootscript	^
^	Linux Device Tree	^
^	Linux Kernel	^
^	Linux Root Filesystem	^

Note the SD card image is common for both the ES and Production boards, but the SDM QSPI Flash image is different, as it contains the FPGA configuration data.

Configure Board

This section presents the necessary board settings in order to run the GSRD on the Intel FPGA Stratix 10 SoC development board.

s10socboard

Make sure that:

• DDR4 memory card is installed on HPS Memory socket
• OOBE Daughter card is installed on HPS Daughter card socket
• SDM QSPI Boot card is installed in the SDM Boot Flash socket

Prepare HPS SD Card

1. Download the prebuilt SD card image and extract it

wget https://releases.rocketboards.org/2019.04/gsrd/s10_gsrd/sdimage.tar.gz
tar xf sdimage.tar.gz

2. Determine the device associated with the SD card on the host by running the following command before and after inserting the card in the reader:

cat /proc/partitions 

Let's assume it is /dev/sdx.

3. Use dd utility to write the SD image to the SD card:

sudo dd if=sdimage.img of=/dev/sdx bs=1M

Note we are using sudo to be able to write to the card.

4. Use sync utility to flush the changes to the SD card:

sudo sync

Flash SDM QSPI

1. If not already done, configure your host computer to work with the USB Blaster. See Using USB Blaster / USB Blaster II under Linux for details.

2. Configure board for flashing the SDM:

• SW1: 1:OFF, rest:ON
• SW2: 1:ON 2:ON 3: ON 4: OFF
• SW3: all OFF
• SW4: 1:ON 2:OFF 3:OFF 4:ON

3. Download and extract the SDM QSPI image file:

For Production board:

wget https://releases.rocketboards.org/2019.04/gsrd/s10_gsrd/ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vg_hps.jic.gz
gunzip ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vg_hps.jic.gz

For ES board:

wget https://releases.rocketboards.org/2019.04/gsrd/s10_gsrd/ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vgs2_hps.jic.gz
gunzip ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vgs2_hps.jic.gz

5. Write the SDM QSPI image file:

For Production board:

quartus_pgm  -c 1 -m jtag -o "pvi;ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vg_hps.jic"

For ES board:

quartus_pgm  -c 1 -m jtag -o "pvi;ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vgs2_hps.jic"

Note that the full path for quartus_pgm will depend on which tool you are using. The default locations are:

• For Standalone Quartus Programmer: ~/intelFPGA_pro/19.1/qprogrammer/bin/
• For Quarts Prime Pro: ~/intelFPGA_pro/19.1/quartus/bin/

On success, the output should look similar with the following:

$ quartus_pgm  -c 1 -m jtag -o "pvi;ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vg_hps.jic"
Info: *******************************************************************
Info: Running Quartus Prime Programmer
    Info: Version 19.1.0 Build 240 03/26/2019 Patches 0.03 SJ Pro Edition
    Info: Copyright (C) 2019  Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
    Info: Your use of Intel Corporation's design tools, logic functions 
    Info: and other software and tools, and any partner logic 
    Info: functions, and any output files from any of the foregoing 
    Info: (including device programming or simulation files), and any 
    Info: associated documentation or information are expressly subject 
    Info: to the terms and conditions of the Intel Program License 
    Info: Subscription Agreement, the Intel Quartus Prime License Agreement,
    Info: the Intel FPGA IP License Agreement, or other applicable license
    Info: agreement, including, without limitation, that your use is for
    Info: the sole purpose of programming logic devices manufactured by
    Info: Intel and sold by Intel or its authorized distributors.  Please
    Info: refer to the applicable agreement for further details, at
    Info: https://fpgasoftware.intel.com/eula.
    Info: Processing started: Tue Apr 16 22:06:54 2019
Info: Command: quartus_pgm -c 1 -m jtag -o pvi;ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vg_hps.jic
Info (213045): Using programming cable "Stratix 10L SoC Dev Kit [1-1]"
Info (213011): Using programming file ghrd_1sx280lu2f50e2vg_hps.jic with checksum 0xC8F3BB7A for device 1SX280LU2@1
Info (209060): Started Programmer operation at Tue Apr 16 22:07:12 2019
Info (18942): Configuring device index 1
Info (18943): Configuration succeeded at device index 1
Info (19094): Erasing flash 1 at device index 1
Info (19096): Programming flash 1 at device index 1
Info (19097): Verifying flash 1 at device index 1
Info (209011): Successfully performed operation(s)
Info (209061): Ended Programmer operation at Tue Apr 16 22:11:16 2019
Info: Quartus Prime Programmer was successful. 0 errors, 0 warnings
    Info: Peak virtual memory: 3124 megabytes
    Info: Processing ended: Tue Apr 16 22:11:16 2019
    Info: Elapsed time: 00:04:22

Boot Linux

1. Configure board for SDM to boot from QSPI:

• SW1: 1:OFF, rest:ON (same as before)
• SW2: 1:ON 2:ON 3:OFF 4: OFF (3 moved from ON to OFF compared to befre)
• SW3: all OFF (same as before)
• SW4: 1:ON 2:OFF 3:OFF 4:ON (same as before)

2. Insert the SD card into the slot on the OOBE HPS Daughtercard

3. Connect to the board with a serial terminal with 115,200-8-N-1 settings

4. Power up the board. Enter 'root' when asked for username to log into Linux

U-Boot SPL 2017.09 (Mar 27 2019 - 09:31:09)
MPU         1000000 kHz
L3 main     400000 kHz
Main VCO    2000000 kHz
Per VCO     2000000 kHz
EOSC1       25000 kHz
HPS MMC     50000 kHz
UART        100000 kHz
DDR: Initializing Hard Memory Controller
DDR: Calibration success
SDRAM: Initializing ECC 0x00000000 - 0x80000000
SDRAM-ECC: Initialized success with 1343 ms
DDR: HMC init success
DDR: 2048 MiB
DDR: Running SDRAM size sanity check
DDR: SDRAM size check passed!
QSPI: Reference clock at 400000000 Hz
Trying to boot from MMC1
reading u-boot-dtb.img
reading u-boot-dtb.img

U-Boot 2017.09-00171-gd593fae (Apr 04 2019 - 01:35:16 +0800)socfpga_stratix10

CPU:   Intel FPGA SoCFPGA Platform
FPGA:  Intel FPGA Stratix 10
Model: Intel SOCFPGA Stratix 10 SoC Development Kit
DRAM:  2 GiB
MMC:   dwmmc0@0xff808000: 0
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Model: Intel SOCFPGA Stratix 10 SoC Development Kit
Net:   
Warning: ethernet@ff800000 (eth0) using random MAC address - 5a:af:2b:1e:5f:a9
eth0: ethernet@ff800000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
reading u-boot.scr
250 bytes read in 3 ms (81.1 KiB/s)
## Executing script at 02100000
reading Image
17449472 bytes read in 1172 ms (14.2 MiB/s)
reading socfpga_stratix10_socdk.dtb
15475 bytes read in 8 ms (1.8 MiB/s)
SF: Detected mt25qu02g with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 256 MiB
Enabling QSPI at Linux DTB...
libfdt fdt_path_offset() returned FDT_ERR_NOTFOUND
RSU: Firmware or flash content not supporting RSU
## Flattened Device Tree blob at 08000000
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x8000000
   reserving fdt memory region: addr=8000000 size=4000
   Loading Device Tree to 000000007fa34000, end 000000007fa3afff … OK

Starting kernel …

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 4.14.73-ltsi-altera (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 7.3.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 1 14:54:42 UTC 2019
[    0.000000] Boot CPU: AArch64 Processor [410fd034]

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The Angstrom Distribution stratix10 ttyS0

Angstrom v2018.06 - Kernel 

stratix10 login: root
root@stratix10:~#