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21 years ago

Dev board, Stratix II Edition, how to boot?

Hi there, I am a newbie to this Altera stuff! Hope anyone can help. I have successfully booted uClinux on a Stratix edition dev board using the following steps. 1. Build and upload kernel to ...
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21 years ago

Hi, sorry must've missed this post when I was scanning the last time around... the 4th step you're referring to is required because:

(1) The kernel console messages are (by default) sent to the JTAG uart.

(2) There's some sort of buffering issue with the JTAG UART driver that blocks the kernel from continuing until the buffer is cleared

(3) Until nios2-terminal is started, the output buffer on the JTAG UART can't clear so the kernel blocks.

As for the Stratix II board, we don't have one in house so we haven't been able to test on it I'm afraid.