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20 years ago

Building uCLinux with no CFI flash

I'm trying to get uCLinux running on a Nios processor on a Cyclone II DSP dev board. (not the Cyclone II Nios dev board) I am using the uCLinuxDist from the wiki, running on Ubuntu in VMWare, an...
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20 years ago

Yes, it did help. Thanks everyone.

I did know that this was what I was supposed to do, but I was running into a problem with SOPC Builder 6.0. In this version, you can create "board descriptions," which specify all the hardware on the board.

The problem then, is that once a board description is chosen, it won't allow you to add components that aren't physically on the board, such as a CFI! So, under SOPC Builder 6.0, the board description needs to be set to 'Unassigned' to work well.

So I have uCLinux up and running on a Cyclone II DSP dev board now.