Am 18.11.2019 um 19:08 schrieb Wolfgang Grandegger:

Hello,

I'm trying to understand what is necessary to get mainline U-Boot booting from the eMMC of an Arria10 board, which is significantly different to the Cyclone 5.

Unfortunately, my playground here is limited to Cyclone 5, but from the U-Boot side and from what I know, booting an Arria 10 should be very similar to Cyclone5 (given that Stratix 10 and Agilex have a very much different boot flow).

Do you have vendor U-Boot running? If not, I suggest to first get that running. The step to mainline U-Boot should then hopefully not be too hard.

I'm playing with U-Boot v2019.10! I find some related documentation at [1]. Section "Arria 10 SoC - Boot from SD Card " seems to apply to the mainline U-Boot as well, at a first glance. Is there some similar doc for mainline U-Boot? What are the differences in mainline? Is it working or is something missing?

So I need at least three partitions on the eMMC:

1. VFAT partition with u-boot.img and fit_spl_fpga.itb
2. A2 partition with 4x u-boot-spl.sfp (or u-boot-with-spl.sfp)
3. Linux partition

Where do I specify the physical number of the partition 1.?

In the config (or via menuconfig), set CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_USE_PARTITION to y and CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION contains the partition number

Is it still possible to load the secondary bootloader (u-boot.img) from offset 0x800 of the A2 partition? It seems that "SPL_FS_FAT" breaks it.

Yes, and no. Enable the above and enable CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_USE_SECTOR as well then CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_SECTOR controls the offset in this partition. However, this uses CONFIG_SYS_MMCSD_RAW_MODE_U_BOOT_PARTITION, which is not necessarily the same as the boot-ROM-detected A2 partition.

Hope that helps.

Regards, Simon