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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Changing the bootloader HEX file in the NIOS II IDE

This is with NIOS II 8.1 although I'll be moving to 10.1 and will need to do this: I'm trying to use a custom bootloader (loaded in EPCS) without changing the hardware (in SOPC Builder). The r...
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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Yes, you can do that to.

See one of my more recent posts regarding just this issue in another thread. There's some C code that implements a simple bootloader expecting the boot record payload to be located at a fixed offset in the EPCS device rather than just after the SOF.

Regards,

-- slacker