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12 years ago

Command line utility for downloading ELFs to Cyclone 5 SoC

Hi guys,

I'm rephrasing the same question I asked on "Soc Deverlopment Kits", since I didn't have too much success there.

Lately I've gained an access to SocKit from Terasic. I'd like to either have U-boot with TFTP support on this board or some command line program I could use for uploading ELF files. Basically I want run "bare-metal" stuff on Cyclone 5. In the perfect world it'd be Linux program, with some command line interface for downloading/peek/poke memory functions.

U-boot I got with this board doesn't have Ethernet support. I'd be fine rebuilding U-boot with Ethernet, if such version exists...

How you guys do it now? Any hints?

WAK

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    Hi WAK,

    I'd be surprised if u-boot didn't already have ethernet built in and functional on Arrow's SoCKit. It works for me on the Altera Dev Kit. I would try posting to the rfi forum listed here (http://www.rocketboards.org/foswiki/main/community) It's a very active list. I learn a lot just from being subscribed to it. :-)

    Cheers,

    slacker
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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

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    Hi WAK,

    I'd be surprised if u-boot didn't already have ethernet built in and functional on Arrow's SoCKit. It works for me on the Altera Dev Kit. I would try posting to the rfi forum listed here ) It's a very active list. I learn a lot just from being subscribed to it. :-)

    Cheers,

    slacker

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    Hi

    I'm surprised too. I saw the Altera Dev Kit having Ethernet support, but SocKit doesn't. "mii" commands shows Ethernet PHY doesn't see a link at all.

    I may want to ask on RocketBoards, but SocKit isn't theirs so I believed Altera forums are more appropriate.

    Thanks,

    WAK