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10 years ago

DE2-115 Linux

First, thank you to whomever posted the wonderful DE2-115 Linux demo to the ALTERA WIKI. Very neat. I am getting ready to start some development with the DE2 board and I am looking for head start d...
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10 years ago

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Hi,

I also have two questions.

Why do you need the Qsys flow? Qsys consumes more resources and makes less fmax than sopc builder. I think there is no merit for pure Nios systems.

Why do you need new kernels? Do you need new features which are not included in the old versions?

Kazu

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I have access to a Quartus ver 15 license and Qsys is the flow. I'm guessing I may be able to go backwards if you are really saying the tool has gotten worse?

I have a little experience with building a ver 3.10 kernel. It looks like a few things were done differently (at least for the Nios II builds) in 2.26. I have no requirement only a desire not to be on the bleeding edge and also not to be far out of date.

-Stan