[U-Boot] arm: socfpga: unable to boot cyclone5 devkit or SocKit

[Dinh Nguyen]

On 04/10/2018 01:29 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 04/10/2018 08:28 PM, Dinh Nguyen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm seeking advice with an observation that I'm seeing on the Cyclone5
>> devkit/sockit.
>>
>> I'm working with U-Boot version v2018.05-rc1. Building the
>> u-boot-with-spl.sfp, then writing the sfp file to the 0xa2 partition on
>> the SD card, does not boot, all I get is this:
>>
>> U-Boot SPL 2018.05-rc1 (Apr 10 2018 - 13:03:48 -0500)
>>
>> U-Boot SPL 2018.05-rc1 (Apr 10 2018 - 13:03:48 -0500)
>>
>> U-Boot SPL 2018.05-rc1 (Apr 10 2018 - 13:03:48 -0500)
>>
>>
>> This issue doesn't happen at all on the DE0 Nano SoC board. I compared
>> the defconfig and came across this. If I remove these config options in
>> the socfpga_sockit_defconfig, then SPL -> U-Boot works fine.
>>
>> -CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_MACRONIX=y
>> -CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_SPANSION=y
>> -CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_STMICRO=y
>>
>> I'll continue to debug of course, but was wondering if anyone might have
>> a better idea as to what could be happening, I'd appreciate the insight.
> 
> Check the size of the SPL , could it be too big ?
> 

That's a good thought...it could be. The size of the default
u-boot-spl-dtb.bin is 58048, removing the SPI, brings that down to
55616, that's smaller than the 64k of OCRAM for SPL?

Dinh