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Honored ContributorDMA & Interrupt Problems...
I'm a newbie in Nios, and my English is not to good, but in this forum i found some topics to control NiosII device like pio, timer, uart by Nios syntax, but few topic about to teach me about dm...
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Honored ContributorWell,
i ask this question, because i'm confused. basicly under linux, there a two type of "programs". 1) a normal application: a normal application doesn't access the hardware directly or uses kernel functions. it will use a driver -> system calls (program runs in user-space). if try to access kernel functions from an application i don't know. you might have to trick a lot. you can try to register the interrupt manually without linux (study the altera hal sources). 2) a kernel module ("driver") gets direct access to the hardware and can use kernel function, so i was thinking you are going to write a driver...
