Booting Linux on MAX10 FPGA Development kit (ACDS v17.0)

Altera_Forum · ‎04-04-2018

Hello!

I’m trying to run Linux kernel 4.9.76-ltsi-rt from altera opensources with buildroot 2017.11 on MAX10 FPGA Development kit with NIOS II, but it’s fail.

I use this instruction (https://rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/alteramax1010m50revcdevelopmentkitlinuxsetupv170) from rocketboards and it works with prebuild linux image. After recompilation linux, the system does not respond.

I was able to start the kernel after adding .dts file to the configuration. The problem is that the system does not see qspi flash with jffs file system and rootfs. There is a kernel panic. What's wrong?

I'm using:

Altera MAX10 10M50 Rev C development kit.

Quartus Prime Standart Edition 17.0

ACDS version 17.0

Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2017.11-14

kernel 4.9.76-ltsi-rt

rootfs buildroot 2017.11

Log file and dts file in attachment

Altera_Forum · ‎04-05-2018

Hi,

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I was able to start the kernel after adding .dts file to the configuration. The problem is that the system does not see qspi flash with jffs file system and rootfs. There is a kernel panic. What's wrong?

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Where did you download your 'rootfs.hex' ?


partition@qspi-rootfs {
	/* 56MB for jffs2 data. */
	label = "Flash 0 jffs2 Filesystem";
	reg = <0x00C00000 0x03600000>;
};

To 0x00C00000 of CFI_512 Mb ?

Regards,

Kazu

Altera_Forum · ‎04-05-2018

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To 0x00C00000 of CFI_512 Mb ?

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You're right.

New kernel doesn't fit into region 0x0 - 0x00A00000. Rootfs is located in 0x00C00000 - 0x0360000.

https://alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=15119&stc=1

Rootfs works if I check Initial RAM filesystem an RAM disk support in kernel config. The SPI flash does not work yet. I check SPI support and Altera SPI controller in kernel config, but it's still not work.

Altera_Forum · ‎04-06-2018

Hi,

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New kernel doesn't fit into region 0x0 - 0x00A00000. Rootfs is located in 0x00C00000 - 0x0360000.

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How about the address range ? 0x0360000 is correct ?

Regards,

Kazu

Altera_Forum · ‎04-06-2018

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Hi,

How about the address range ? 0x0360000 is correct ?

Regards,

Kazu

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Yes, it's no matter. I tried changing the range to 0x00C00000 - 0x0380000.

I think the problem is in the driver SPI. No messages about SPI in the kernel console. How correctly to include the SPI driver?

Altera_Forum · ‎04-06-2018

Hi,

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Yes, it's no matter. I tried changing the range to 0x00C00000 - 0x0380000.

I think the problem is in the driver SPI. No messages about SPI in the kernel console. How correctly to include the SPI driver?

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I think the correct value may be 0x0340000 for your 512Mb spi flash,

And I also think you stored your kernel code and booted it successfully from your spi flash,

So may be the SPI driver is working correctly,

Regards,

Kazu

P.S.

In the kernel booting time, the CPU reads the contents of flash memory and copies those to the RAM.

It only uses spi hardware and has no need to use Linux spi (software) driver.

Altera_Forum · ‎04-06-2018

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In the kernel booting time, the CPU reads the contents of flash memory and copies those to the RAM.

It only uses spi hardware and has no need to use Linux spi (software) driver.

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Bootlodaer works correctly. It's copies the image (vmlinux and rootfs) to the RAM and jumps to the kernel. Linux kernel doesn't search MTD partitions and it's fail.

This is "true" log for the rocketboards linux (kernel 3.10.31-ltsi-02998).

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Linux version 3.10.31-ltsi-02998-g28bac3e (esv@pg-iccf0369) (gcc version 4.7.3 (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2013.05-43) )# 1 Tue May 2 12:31:17 MYT 2017

On node 0 totalpages: 65536

free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat c83290a0, node_mem_map c834a3a0

Normal zone: 512 pages used for memmap

Normal zone: 0 pages reserved

Normal zone: 65536 pages, LIFO batch:15

pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768

pcpu-alloc: [0] 0

Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 65024

Kernel command line: debug console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw rootfstype=jffs2

PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)

Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)

Sorting __ex_table...

Memory available: 125420k/3348k RAM (2509k kernel code, 839k data)

NR_IRQS:64 nr_irqs:64 0

Calibrating delay loop... 36.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=73216)

pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301

Mount-cache hash table entries: 512

devtmpfs: initialized

NET: Registered protocol family 16

bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0

Switching to clocksource timer

NET: Registered protocol family 2

TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)

TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)

TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)

TCP: reno registered

UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)

NET: Registered protocol family 1

RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.

RPC: Registered udp transport module.

RPC: Registered tcp transport module.

RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.

msgmni has been set to 244

Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)

io scheduler noop registered

io scheduler deadline registered

io scheduler cfq registered (default)

Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled

18001600.serial: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x18001600 (irq = 2) is a 16550A

console [ttyS0] enabled

ttyJ0 at MMIO 0x18001530 (irq = 7) is a Altera JTAG UART

loop: module loaded

2 ofpart partitions found on MTD device n25q512a

Creating 2 MTD partitions on "n25q512a":

0x000000000000-0x000000a00000 : "Flash 0 Raw Data"

0x000000a00000-0x000004000000 : "Flash 1 jffs2 Filesystem"

libphy: altera_tse: probed

altera_tse 400.ethernet (unregistered net_device): MDIO bus altera_tse-0: created

altera_tse 400.ethernet: Altera TSE MAC version 17.0 at 0x00000400 irq 3/5

mousedev: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

TCP: cubic registered

NET: Registered protocol family 17

VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) on device 31:1.

devtmpfs: mounted

Freeing unused kernel memory: 108K (c8275000 - c8290000)

Starting logging: OK

Initializing random number generator... done.

Starting network...

Welcome to Nios II

nios2 login:

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Altera_Forum · ‎04-06-2018

Hi,

Maybe you need a kernel command line.

debug console=ttyS0,115200 root=/dev/mtdblock1 rw rootfstype=jffs2

And did you enable the MTD (Memory Technology Device )partition support ?

Regards,

Kazu

Altera_Forum · ‎04-06-2018

MTD is enable.

I can't find altera qspi driver in linux kernel. How it works? U-Boot has altera_qspi.c and it works fine. The kernel does not understand "compatible = "altr,quadspi-1.0"" in dts file.

Altera_Forum · ‎04-07-2018

Hi,

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MTD is enable.

I can't find altera qspi driver in linux kernel. How it works? U-Boot has altera_qspi.c and it works fine. The kernel does not understand "compatible = "altr,quadspi-1.0"" in dts file.

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Maybe the next page will help you.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6532891/

But I don't know the patch can be used for Linux ver. 4.9.76.

Regards,

Kazu

Altera_Forum · ‎04-12-2018

Thank you! It works with few changes.

It's best to use this patch for altera quadspi flash controller v2 (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9810039/) with updates in Quartus project.

Altera_Forum · ‎04-13-2018

Hi,

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Thank you! It works with few changes.

It's best to use this patch for altera quadspi flash controller v2 (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9810039/) with updates in Quartus project.

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You are welcome. And also thank you for your feedback.

Kazu

Altera_Forum · ‎04-22-2018

Did you get this to work? I too am having essentially the same problem.

I modified the DTS to include the quadspi and also update the kernel cmdline

With loglevel 7 set what I see is that the altera_quadspi is very unhappy when probed.

>altera_quadspi 180014a0.quadspi: bank setup failed

>altera_quadspi: probe of 180014a0.quadspi failed with error -22

-dcat

Altera_Forum · ‎04-23-2018

Hi,

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Did you get this to work? I too am having essentially the same problem.

I modified the DTS to include the quadspi and also update the kernel cmdline

With loglevel 7 set what I see is that the altera_quadspi is very unhappy when probed.

>altera_quadspi 180014a0.quadspi: bank setup failed

>altera_quadspi: probe of 180014a0.quadspi failed with error -22

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Would you show me your DTS file?

Regards,

Kazu