From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Schwarz Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:40:10 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot] Question regarding FPGA firmware load in u-boot In-Reply-To: <200906191746.52193.dk-arm-linux@gmx.de> References: <200906191746.52193.dk-arm-linux@gmx.de> Message-ID: <1245480010.3932.11.camel@swa-e6500> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dieter, On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:46 +0200, Dieter Kiermaier wrote: > Hello List, > > I want to boot a (Lattice) FPGA from u-boot by using Slave Serial > configuration on a Marvell Kirkwood device. Should be no problem as long as you'll have access to GPIO. > As seen there is an (Xilinx and Altera) FPGA loader driver allready available > in u-boot. > Please can somebody explain how I have to provide a FPGA bitstream > image to u-boot? The easiest way is to reserve some unused flash sectors and use the first sector's start adress as arg for "fpga load". > It seems I have to create a image with mkimage? no - Lattice specififc bitstream can be stored in raw format. mkimage may be useful for update, but personally I prefer update via dedicated linux mtd partition. > This image have to be loaded into ram and the address has to be provided to > the load command? Usually an FPGA is *very* board specific. I'd suggest to use flash and create a corresponding mtd partition for linux, i.e. make it maintainable. > Is there a maintainer for the FPGA code inside u-boot? > I'm willing to contribute some extensions for Lattice FPGAs if I'm successful! excellent - all you'll need is the Lattice specific bit toggle sequence. submitting a proper patch will surely do. Regards, Andr?? > > Thanks to all, > Dieter > _______________________________________________ > U-Boot mailing list > U-Boot at lists.denx.de > http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot MATRIX VISION GmbH, Talstra?e 16, DE-71570 Oppenweiler Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 271090 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Gerhard Thullner, Werner Armingeon, Uwe Furtner, Hans-Joachim Reich