Debian Linux on socfpga

Target Hardware

The test board is a Terasic de0-nano-soc

Install Dependencies

Compiler Toolchain

sudo apt install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf

Compile u-boot

git clone https://github.com/altera-opensource/u-boot-socfpga.git

export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-

cd u-boot-socfpga
git checkout master
make mrproper
make defconfig socfpga_de0_nano_soc_defconfig
make -j4

export PATH=`pwd`/u-boot-socfpga/tools:$PATH

Compile kernel

export ARCH=arm
export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-

git clone https://github.com/altera-opensource/linux-socfpga.git
cd linux-socfpga
git checkout socfpga-4.15
make socfpga_defconfig
make -j8 uImage LOADADDR=0x8000
make dtbs
make -j8 modules

Copy kernel and DTB

Copy the files to the SD card boot partition
arch/arm/boot/zImage
arch/arm/boot/dts/socfpga_cyclone5_de0_sockit.dtb to socfpga.dtb

Create rootfs

Requires binfmt-support

sudo qemu-debootstrap --no-check-gpg --arch=armhf stretch rootfs ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/
chroot rootfs

Once inside the chroot

• Set the root password
• Update /etc/apt/sources.list
• apt-get update
• apt-get install openssh-server

exit chroot

Copy rootfs/* to SD card root partition

Install SD card into de0-nano-soc board

Post installation

Setup Networking

Create /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0 containing network configuration

Fix locales

apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales