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

Chin Liang See clsee at altera.com
Wed Jan 27 14:34:41 CET 2016


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?

Thanks
Chin Liang

> > 
> > btw. you dropped Dinh from the CC .
> > 
> 
> Sorry, but I haven't had a chance to take a look at this. I'll try to
> looking this in the following week.
> 
> Dinh
> 


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