Why does the Intel® Stratix® 10 Hard Processor System encounter an error while programming the FPGA core image?

Due to a problem with the Intel® Stratix® 10 Secure Device Manager firmware in the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Programmer software version 18.1 , the Hard Processor System may encounter an error while programming a large FPGA core image.  In U-boot, this problem may result in a hang or resemble the following error:

SOCFPGA_STRATIX10 # fpga load 0 ${loadaddr}${filesize}                         

....RECONFIG_DATA error: 00000004, Unknown error!                               

Patch 0.19 for the Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro software version 18.1 is available to fix this problem.   Download and install the patch from the relevant link below, recompile your Intel Quartus Prime Pro project and recreate programming file :

• Patch 0.19 for Quartus Prime Pro version 18.1 for Linux (.run)
• Patch 0.19 for Quartus Prime Pro version 18.1 for Windows (.exe)
• Readme for Patch 0.19 for Quartus Prime Pro version 18.1 (.txt)