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Altera_Forum
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9 years agoBooting VxWorks 7 with U-Boot on Cyclone V, take 2...
So I am having quite a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to get the u-boot going for VxWorks 7 on Cyclone V. I have the Cyclone V devkit BSP from WindRiver’s site and have downloaded the files...
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
9 years agoIt turns out that I wasn't reading carefully enough. The Altera files that come with the booting VxWorks guide (https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/download/rtos_tools.html) are not for the Terasic Cyclone V development kit that I have and thus the preloader isn't going to do the job it's expected. Rocketboards has a software lab that goes through building the preloader for the Terasic CV dev kit. That preloader was then used with the Altera provided documentation to make the bootable image used to see the u-boot data over a serial stream in step 3.