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11 years ago

Creating pof from sof and two hex - exceeds memory

Hi, I am trying to generate an EPCS64 pof file with sof and two hex files. One hex is my nios code (relative addressing). The second hex (absolute addressing with 0x7F0000 offset) is a tiny 64 cha...
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11 years ago

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.. ok thanks... so if you use absolute for your nios code are you manually entering the address to be directly after the sof? Or do you have a custom bootloader that jumps to know address?

Both these I was hoping to avoid....

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I'm using the chain of commands (sof2flash, elf2flash, objcopy) from this article:

http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/solutions/rd10132010_126.html

i.e. use those commands to dynamically figure out where to put your NIOS code