Articles by Steffen Trumtrar

Bootstrapping Arria10 with OpenOCD and barebox

Steffen Trumtrar | 2019-06-20 | Barebox, OpenOCD, Socfpga

The Arria10 SoCFPGA can boot from multiple sources: SD Card, NAND flash, QSPI flash and eMMC, that can be selected via the BSEL pins. If the bootrom can not find a valid bootloader on that medium, it will fall back to JTAG. So for developing and testing, the BSEL pins can just be set to a medium that is non-existent. In case of bootstrapping, the bootrom falls back to JTAG anyway, as there is no valid bootloader, yet.