U-Boot on Nios II Development Kit, Cyclone II Ed.

Just to be clear on small, but important point:

> The patch also includes support for several other Altera boards from a custom

> U-Boot 1.1.3 version by Psyent.

The sources at psyent.com are not custom at all ... they are taken directly from

the u-boot souce tree and contain all Nios-related patches that have been submitted

to the u-boot project. Any changes are simply the elimination of warnings or

build errors for the typical development environment (cygwin). Unfortunately, the

u-boot project is _very_ busy and patches can now take as long as several months

to be applied. All of the boards supported by the code at psyent are part of pending

u-boot patches.

Hopefully, this long delay between submitting patches and their application to

the main source tree should improve now that u-boot is using git. I'm currently

evaluating the feasibility of setting up a git repository for nios development -- to

make the latest nios patches available immediately and still maintain sync with

the latest platform independent code.

> the patch also changes the tool names used from nios2-elf-* to nios2-linux-uclibc-*

The normal way to do this with u-boot is to simply set CROSS_COMPILE with the

make command:

$ make CROSS_COMPILE=nios2-linux-uclibc-

Regards,

--Scott