Hi Ian,

thank you for the insight into the rtems development with fdt.

As we did not manage to debug the boot process properly, my suspicion on the device tree was incorrect. Actually our u-boot image generation and boot commands were wrong. After searching through the rtems-kernel repository as well as different sources from the web and checking various combinations we now use the following commands to create a running hello-world image from a elf-file:

arm-rtems5-objcopy -R -S -O binary hello.exe hello.bin
gzip -9 -f -c hello.bin > hello.bin.gz
mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -a 0x00300000 -e 0x00300040 -n RTEMS -d hello.bin.gz hello.img

The entry-point (-e) and the start address (-e) values can be obtained using the elf reader:

arm-rtems5-readelf -l hello.exe

Furthermore one has to compile the device tree blob using the device-tree-compiler, preprocessing is required if the device-tree source (ours is taken from kernel.org's linux-4.14 branch) contains includes:

cpp -nostdinc -I include -I arch -undef -x assembler-with-cpp devtree.dts devtree.dts.preprocessed
dtc -I dts -O dtb devtree.dts.preprocessed -o devtree.dtb

Loading this image as well as the device-tree-blob and finally booting it on u-boot has to be done as follows:

load mmc 0:2 0x10000000 devtree.dtb
load mmc 0:2 0x20000000 hello.img
bootm 0x10800000 - 0x18000000

Additionally we tried to build a FIT image containing the rtems-app as well as the device tree in one file, but we were not able to create a bootable one yet. Maybe one could add the build instructions to the README within the altera-cyclone-v bsp or maybe to the wiki, making it easier for other guys trying similar things.

Best regards,

Christian


On 13.02.19 02:40, Ian Caddy wrote:
Hi Christian,

I am not familiar with the Cyclone, but we recently went through the device tree learning curve moving to RTEMS5 and the creating a BPS for the imx6ULL processor.

The thing with device tree is that what ever your BSP needs, is how you have to name your device tree.  Search your BSP for the following string:   fdt_

In the example cyclone BSP, there were a number of functions:

fdt_path_offset_namelen

fdt_getprop

etc.

Check how each of these calls is made, and the names used.  For example the first one I came across was in adjust_memory_size

with memory_path = "/memory" and reserved_memory_path = "/reserved-memory"

Both these need to be defined in your device tree for it to work. Look through all your other instances and ensure that your names line up.

regards,

Ian Caddy


On 12/02/2019 11:14 pm, Christian Spindeldreier wrote:

Hi all,

we are trying to run rtems-5 on the Terasic DE10 Standard board containing an Intel (former Altera) Cyclone V SoC-FPGA, which is identical the the one on the one on the DK-DEV-5CSXC6N.

As there is the altcycv_devkit bsp within the rtems kernel we tried simply to run a simple hello-world application based on this bsp.

We managed to build a u-boot image (FIT) containing rtems and a dtb which starts to run, but freezes without any output. We assume this issue to be related to the dtb which u-boot has to provide, but there is no example dts within the bsp. At the moment we use a slightly modified version of the socfpga_cyclone5_socdk device tree from the linux-4.14 kernel working fine with the linux kernel, but this does not seem to provide the required information for rtems.

Can someone maybe provide an example dts file, which shows how the nodes should be named, and what information has to be provided by the device tree? Any information on the usage of the altera-cyclone-v bsp might be helpful.

Kind regards,

Christian

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