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10 years ago

Error codes of Altera command-line tool

Hi all, I'd like to create a simple GUI useful to program our boards. I need something that indicates in a clear way if the download was ok or not. To do this, I need to understand if the com...
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10 years ago

See chapter 3 - 'Using the Flash Programmer from the Command Line' of nios ii flash programmer user guide (https://www.altera.com/en_us/pdfs/literature/ug/ug_nios2_flash_programmer.pdf) for a comprehensive description of the flash programming utility. I suggest you explore the '--debug' command line option.

Also have a look at Chapter 6 'Exit and Exit Status' of the advanced bash-scripting guide (http://tldp.org/ldp/abs/html/exit-status.html). This will give you help on using return values from calls.

Cheers,

Alex