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22 years ago

Compiling Nios II Linux Distribution v1.1

After upgrading to Quartus II 4.0 + SP1, the NIOS II core (eval version), and the NIOS II Linux distribution v1.1, I am struggling to compile the kernel for my Cyclone EP1C20. I’ve followed the quick...
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22 years ago

For the time being, the fix to the vmlinux.lds.s problem can be solved by opening a Nios SDK Shell and typing in: 

$ touch $KERNEL_PLUGIN/linux-2.6.x/arch/nios2nommu/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

This is a work around to a problem with Cygwin not being able to deal with filenames that have the same name but different case.

This problem has been addressed and will not occur in the next release.