Hi everybody,
I’m currently working on a Cyclone V based custom board which is similar to the DE0 nano.
While eventually this board shall boot from serial flash (for U-Boot and eMMC for Linux) it temporarily does from SD card until I get booting from QSPI running.
I’m currently able to build SPL as well as U-Boot and the on the latter console currently works fine when I use the SPL as provided in the SDK which boots u-boot.img from directory ATLAS_SOC_GHRD (on FAT partition of SD card).
When I boot my SPL/U-boot from the raw partition the board starts up fine (i.e. I can see normal boot messages from SPL as well as U-Boot) but any characters typed on the console seem to get lost.
The UART on the board is attached to a FTDI chip FT234XD which provides a USB console.
I already checked pin multiplexor as well as UART settings to be identical in the two situations.
The only difference I see is that in UART’s register MSR bit CTS is set when it works, but I don’t have the slightest idea why. Chances are that I miss something …
Can anyone push me in the right direction?
FWIW: my development host is Linux Mint 18.1, the console port is opened by conserver, but that is.
Thanks in advance for any help.