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Date:      Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:44:35 +0100
From:      Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no>
To:        freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: u-boot ports for Zedboard and Zybo
Message-ID:  <20170121174435.ba716a9c63950c6f93594059@getmail.no>
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:47:26 -0800
Thomas Skibo <thomasskibo@yahoo.com> wrote:

>=20
> But, I have been working to get crochet to build a Parallella image (my c=
hanges so far are at http://www.github.com/skibo/crochet-freebsd) and so I =
took an SD image I created and compressed and uploaded it
>  to my site (there are no links to it yet):
>=20
> http://www.skibo.net/zedbsd/FreeBSD-armv6-11.0-PARALLELLA-309692.img.bz2
>=20
> It doesn?t have a bitstream file so you need to copy your board-specific =
parallella.bit.bin to the boot partition.  But, it might boot up without th=
e FPGA loaded (I don?t know).  It would help a lot if you tried it out.

It might not be recommended (as I understand it, power management (or parts=
 of it) is handled when the FPGA is set up), it might run hot (hotter than =
usual?).
Anyway, I tried it without the FPGA bitstream on the boot partition. U-boot=
 complains:

Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0=20
Configuring PL and Booting Linux...
Device: SDHCI
Manufacturer ID: 41
OEM: 3432
Name: SD8GB=20
Tran Speed: 50000000
Rd Block Len: 512
SD version 2.0
High Capacity: Yes
Capacity: 7.4 GiB
Bus Width: 4-bit
reading parallella.bit.bin

** Unable to read "parallella.bit.bin" from mmc 0:1 **
Error: Timeout waiting for FPGA to config.
fpga - loadable FPGA image support

Usage:
fpga [operation type] [device number] [image address] [image size]
fpga operations:
  dump	[dev]			Load device to memory buffer
  info	[dev]			list known device information
  load	[dev] [address] [size]	Load device from memory buffer
  loadb	[dev] [address] [size]	Load device from bitstream buffer (Xilinx on=
ly)
  loadmk [dev] [address]	Load device generated with mkimage
	For loadmk operating on FIT format uImage address must include
	subimage unit name in the form of addr:<subimg_uname>
reading uImage

8170816 bytes read
reading devicetree.dtb

4430 bytes read
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 03000000 ...

but it boots:

Starting sshd.
Starting background file system checks in 60 seconds.
mount: /dev/mmcsd0s2a: Device busy

Sat Jan 21 16:27:13 UTC 2017

FreeBSD/arm (parallella) (ttyu0)

login: root
FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p5 (PARALLELLA) #0 r309692: Sun Jan 15 18:07:24 PST 20=
17

Welcome to FreeBSD!

Full serial console output is on my Parallella FreeBSD page[1].
Do you want me to run more tests before I put the FPGA bitstream onto the b=
oot partition?

References:
1) https://sites.google.com/site/tingox/ks_parallella_freebsd
--=20
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no>



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