7.10. Intel Agilex SoCFPGA

Agilex SoCFPGA is a FPGA with integrated quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex A53 processor.

Upon boot, Boot ROM loads bl2 into OCRAM. Bl2 subsequently initializes the hardware, then loads bl31 and bl33 (UEFI) into DDR and boots to bl33.

Boot ROM --> Trusted Firmware-A --> UEFI

7.10.1. How to build

7.10.1.1. Code Locations

  • Trusted Firmware-A: link

  • UEFI (to be updated with new upstreamed UEFI): link

7.10.1.2. Build Procedure

  • Fetch all the above 2 repositories into local host. Make all the repositories in the same ${BUILD_PATH}.

  • Prepare the AARCH64 toolchain.

  • Build UEFI using Agilex platform as configuration This will be updated to use an updated UEFI using the latest EDK2 source

make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- device=agx
  • Build atf providing the previously generated UEFI as the BL33 image

make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- bl2 fip PLAT=agilex
BL33=PEI.ROM

7.10.1.3. Install Procedure

  • dd fip.bin to a A2 partition on the MMC drive to be booted in Agilex board.

  • Generate a SOF containing bl2

aarch64-linux-gnu-objcopy -I binary -O ihex --change-addresses 0xffe00000 bl2.bin bl2.hex
quartus_cpf --bootloader bl2.hex <quartus_generated_sof> <output_sof_with_bl2>
  • Configure SOF to board

nios2-configure-sof <output_sof_with_bl2>

7.10.2. Boot trace

INFO:    DDR: DRAM calibration success.
INFO:    ECC is disabled.
NOTICE:  BL2: v2.1(debug)
NOTICE:  BL2: Built
INFO:    BL2: Doing platform setup
NOTICE:  BL2: Booting BL31
INFO:    Entry point address = 0xffe1c000
INFO:    SPSR = 0x3cd
NOTICE:  BL31: v2.1(debug)
NOTICE:  BL31: Built
INFO:    ARM GICv2 driver initialized
INFO:    BL31: Initializing runtime services
WARNING: BL31: cortex_a53
INFO:    BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world
INFO:    Entry point address = 0x50000
INFO:    SPSR = 0x3c9