Although Unofficially Supported, how to get EDS on Ubuntu running

Hi James,

First of all, thanks for continuing using Intel product for more than 2 decades and that this is astonishing . From your description, it seems like we got to deal with a lot more compilers & dependencies that need to be fix first in order to get the EDS up and run on Ubuntu18.X.

There are pros & cons using latest Linux Operating System where we might need to deal with upgrade/downgrade the Linux Operating Environment set in order to make it works.

We understand your concerned about the old EDS version support but there is a series of consideration from marketing, resources availability, demand, stability, maintaining & etc perspective need to taken care off.

However, the alternative recommendation provided by JOHI earlier was something worth to be consider or as what you mentioned -Yeah - Go for Windows where we have more users and resources to cover this.

Here is the official communication about EDS across different OS'es for your perusal:

Operating System Support:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/support/support-resources/download/os-support.html

EDS Features & Availability:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software/programmable/soc-eds/getting-started.html

So, based on the OS support table, we have both NIOS II EDS (Pro & Standard) supported on Windows. We will bring your input about old EDS version support on Linux back to our PSG-FPGA Division but there is no guarantee at all for enable this features in near future.

I hope you can understand this and wish to see you in others thread.

Thanks,

Joseph

Intel Customer Support