This page contains release notes for the Altera
Golden System Reference Design (GSRD) User Manuals (Golden System Reference Design) v15.0.
Release Notes
- 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.
The following documents are also part of the release:
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 |