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Altera_Forum
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14 years agocustom Nios bootloader
Hello, I have a very small board containing ethernet phy, sdram and cyclone III fpga only. The fpga upload is done from another board, which has microcontroller on it, using passive serial mode. T...
Altera_Forum
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14 years agoIt depends on how you write your bootloader. If you don't use statically initialized variables but initialize everything in your code (in the bootloader, the code and the drivers) it could work. But I admit it isn't the usual way embedded applications boot.