[U-Boot] FPGA detection failure on Cyclone V soc development kit

[Marek Vasut]

On 01/27/2016 03:18 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Chin Liang See <clsee at altera.com> writes:
> 
>> On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 13:46 +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>> Chin Liang See <clsee at altera.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 10:35 -0600, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>>>>> On 01/21/2016 10:31 AM, Marek Vasut wrote:
>>>>>> On Thursday, January 21, 2016 at 05:20:33 PM, Måns Rullgård
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> writes:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 08:31:30PM +0000, Måns Rullgård
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I'm having a problem with u-boot 2016.01 failing to
>>>>>>>>> detect the FPGA on my Altera Cyclone V SoC Development
>>>>>>>>> Kit.  On startup, it simply prints "FPGA: Not Altera chip
>>>>>>>>> ID" (the ID having been read as all -zero).  No amount of
>>>>>>>>> messing with jumpers or switches makes a difference.  The
>>>>>>>>> software on the SD card included in the box appears to
>>>>>>>>> work, so on a whim I took the SPL pre-loader from this
>>>>>>>>> card and combined it with the main 2016.01 u-boot.  This
>>>>>>>>> makes the detection succeed, despite Marek baulking at
>>>>>>>>> this idea.  The "good" SPL identifies as "U-Boot SPL
>>>>>>>>> 2013.01.01 (Dec 04 2014 - 08:59:41)" which is a different
>>>>>>>>> build date than the main u-boot on the same SD card, so
>>>>>>>>> which source code version it was built from is anyone's
>>>>>>>>> guess.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What's interesting is that Marek's board works with u
>>>>>>>>> -boot 2016.01 while mine fails even with the very same
>>>>>>>>> binary.  The boards are different revisions (his
>>>>>>>>> 100-0321003-C1, mine -E1), and the main Cyclone V chips
>>>>>>>>> are also different (his 5CSXFC6D6F31C8NES, mine
>>>>>>>>> 5CSXFC6D6F31C6N).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Any suggestions for what to try next?
>>>>>>>>  v2016.01 release or to of tree?  If top of tree, try
>>>>>>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/570009/
>>>>>>>  Tried release, top of tree, and top of tree with that patch.
>>>>>>> Nothing works.
>>>>
>>>> Both part number is different in speed grade. This is first time I
>>>> heard about this issue. A quick suspect might due to clock. Can you
>>>> try to copy pll_config.h that is passing (from 2013.01.01) and
>>>> replace
>>>> the one in 2016?
>>>
>>> That doesn't work at all.  Now it fails to detect the FPGA, then
>>> hangs after printing the amount of DRAM.
>>
>> Can you share with me the pll_config for 2013.01.01 that is working for
>> you?
> 
> I don't know that it is.  The only thing I've found to work is the
> unidentified SPL on the SD card that came with the dev kit.

I pushed some DDR fixes into u-boot-socfpga/ddr branch [1], which fixed
DDR calibration issue on a board I have in here. Can you try them ? Thanks

[1]
http://git.denx.de/?p=u-boot/u-boot-socfpga.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ddr

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Best regards,
Marek Vasut