[PATCH v4] Altera SoCFpga Boot Stall Fix

[Chee, Tien Fong]

Hi Tom,

On 15/11/2025 1:35 am, Tom Rini wrote:
>>> like Cyclone V, and Arria 10. Our initial assumption was that users
>>> would primarily use the Altera official release repo, where we have been
>>> gradually migrating platform devices to the driver model stage by stage,
>>> including clk driver used in MMC driver.
>> Tom, with all respect. I don't see those previous patches really improved
>> nor introduced a proper build environment for supported SoCFPGA series.
>>
>> Assumption is not considered as a proper way nor correct way to patch things.
>> Simply removing critical code and breaking other SoCFPGA families is completely
>> unacceptable.
>>
>> We are not talking about code improvement nor cleanup.
>> What the previous patch actually did is simply remove old generation SoCFPGA
>> codes and w/o coherently coexist old and new generations.
> Something like this recently happened on the i.MX side of things, and it
> was fixed because once the rest of the community found out, it was made
> clear breaking / removing older used devices is not allowed.
>
> So, Tien, Altera in general, please do whatever is needed to restore
> functionality to older devices that are still quite clearly being used
> by both the community and your own customers. If more CI of older
> targets is needed, get that going. Breaking older devices to support
> newer devices is not appropriate.


Understood, we will make sure older SoCFPGA platforms (Cyclone V and 
Arria 10) remain fully supported. We'll prepare patches to restore the 
missing functionality and ensure proper coexistence between legacy and 
new driver-model platforms.

We’ll also review our internal CI coverage for older devices to prevent 
similar regressions going forward.

Thanks for highlighting this, we’ll follow up with the fixes.

Regards,
Tien Fong