[Buildroot] [PATCH 0/4] Attempt to improve support for Altera SoC FPGA boards

Jan Viktorin viktorin at rehivetech.com
Mon Oct 19 16:30:14 UTC 2015


I am sorry, the text may be a little bit confusing, so I am adding
some clarifications...

On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 18:24:50 +0200
Jan Viktorin <viktorin at rehivetech.com> wrote:

> Hello Buildroot community,
> 
> the following patch series attempts to improve support for building for
> Altera SoC FPGA boards. I mean, I'd like to have it ready out-of-the-box.
> 
> The readme says that it is necessary to "sign" (it is now signing, just CRC

"not signing"

> by the way) the SPL image in order to boot. I cannot ack this because my
> SoC Development Kit (not the Arrow one!) boots normally with the generated
> SPL. How is it possible then? Is it fixed in U-Boot? I doubt, didn't find it
> there... I am confused about it.
> 
> I don't have the second board (Arrow SoCKit) to prove it boots without it.

*it boots without "signing"

> 
> Anyway, this series contains updates to the readme.txt and also adds mkpimage
> package to support the "signing" of the SPL images. Those patches are not
> very coherent and I do not expect to merge them at this stage.

The readme should be updated that it is not necessary to sign anything.
Or the mkpimage package should be included in Buildroot.

> 
> Can somebody check whether the generated SPL boots on Arrow SoCKit?
> 
> If it does not, I would like to add the mkpimage package to Buildroot (however,
> it requires a Go compiler).
> 
> If there is no issue, I would just leave the readme updates (an improve them
> a bit).
> 
> Regards
> Jan Viktorin
> 
> Jan Viktorin (4):
>   mkpimage: new host package
>   boot/uboot: compute CRC on SPLs for Altera SoC FPGA
>   socfpga: update readme for sockit/socdk boards
>   socfpga: note about unnecessary mkpimage of SPL
> 
>  board/altera/readme.txt      | 31 +++++++++++++++++--------------
>  boot/uboot/Config.in         | 10 ++++++++++
>  boot/uboot/uboot.mk          |  9 +++++++++
>  package/mkpimage/mkpimage.mk | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  4 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 package/mkpimage/mkpimage.mk
> 



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   Jan Viktorin                  E-mail: Viktorin at RehiveTech.com
   System Architect              Web:    www.RehiveTech.com
   RehiveTech
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