Primary Boot Device
The primary boot device is a QSPI device located on the SOM. The necessary elements are
packaged in a Zynq
®
UltraScale+™ MPSoC specic format and le captured as BOOT.BIN. The
BOOT.BIN le contains the board-specic boot rmware that consists of the following elements:
• FSBL: First-stage boot-loader rmware
• PMU: Plaorm management unit rmware
• ATF: Arm
®
trusted rmware
• U-Boot: Second-stage boot loader
U-Boot provides the funconality for the hand-o between the primary boot device and the
secondary boot device. It will search for both the SD card and eMMC secondary boot devices; if
both are detected it will provide a menu interface to you to select the desired Linux boot target.
The primary boot device provides a redundant copy of boot rmware arranged in an A/B
conguraon. The A/B conguraon provides a dynamic primary and secondary image operaon
with corresponding update mechanisms. On boot, the system automacally boots from the
dened primary image, and, if boot fails, it falls back to the previously known good boot image.
Secondary Boot Device
The secondary boot device on the KV260 Starter Kit is the SD card. It contains the operang
system image and associated applicaon les. The KV260 Starter Kit accelerated applicaon
references are built on the Linux operang system. The Geng Started web page provides a pre-
built reference image that can be wrien to a microSD card for out-of-the-box funconality.
SOM board support packages (BSPs) are also available if you want to customize your OS.
RECOMMENDED:
The SOM is designed to use SDHC standard microSD cards.
Chapter 3: Boot Devices and Firmware Overview
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