[U-Boot] [PATCH v7] socfpga: Adding Scan Manager driver

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > >>> Actually socfpga board folder includes code to support both Cyclone V
> > >>> and Arria V soc dev kit. 
> > >>
> > >> ok. I expect that you are talking about 2 completely different boards
> > >> which are here
> > >>
> > >> http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-cyclone-v-soc.html
> > >> http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-arria-v-soc.html
> > >>
> > >> Can you use the same configuration on both of them at the same time?
> > >> I hardly believe that everything just match.
> > > 
> > > Actually, there's third board, called SoCrates, and yes, exactly same
> > > configuration works on it and cyclone-v.
> > 
> > What about Arria-V?
> > 
> > > 
> > > So you better start believing :-).
> > 
> > Maybe I will start to believe that Altera design all board
> > the same like position of pins for uarts, spi, ethernet, etc.
> > 
> 
> At least Sockit and Socrates are pretty similar in that regard.
> Apart from the things that are not ;-)
> 
> Take for example the DDR3 pins on the FPGA side.
> The Sockit has DDR3-RAM, the Socrates hasn't. So, the pinsetup is different
> for both. And when you mess that up in the prebootloader, you can't AFAIK
> change that later.
> The boards will boot just fine with the same barebox image, but that doesn't
> mean, that everything is setup correctly.

That is what I meant -- you still have useful box running
Linux. Having something useful that boots out of the box is important.

And it seems to be same(-enough) between Socrates and Arria, too.

									Pavel
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