Ubuntu SD card building scripts for ARM CPU on Arria 10 SoC FPGAs

These scripts will build SD cards to boot Ubuntu on the hard ARM cores on Intel Arria 10 FPGAs. As well as the SD card image, they will build kernel, u-boot and device tree pieces, as well as downloading a pre-built FPGA bitfile at boot time. Ubuntu and compiler images are downloaded as part of the build process.

Prerequisites

• A Linux machine with the Quartus tools installed and on your PATH (tested with Ubuntu 16.04/18.04 and Quartus 18.1). In particular, the 'Intel SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite Standard Edition'. A licence for Quartus should not be necessary if you are not resynthesising the FPGA bitfiles.
• A Quartus project which has built a suitable bitfile (.sof) - this will be converted to the necessary .rbf as part of the build
• A Platform Designer (Qsys) design of the FPGA SoC that will be used to build the device tree
• An internet connection (to download necessary pieces)
• sudo access (since building SD card images requires the loopback device)

Usage

./build_ubuntu_sdcard.sh \<path to FPGA project directory> \<name of Quartus project> \

Author

Theo Markettos

thunderclap+atm26 at cl.cam.ac.uk