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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Downloaded tarball and like to build linux for a custom design with nommu

I am new here and seeking some help to work with a custom design with no mmu. A I downloaded the tarball nios2-linux-20100621.tar and started working. fter 2 days of trials using nioswiki, ...
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16 years ago

It should be possible to use the 2010 tarball to also work with NOMMU designs. Make sure you git checkout the test-nios2 branch in the linux-2.6 and the uClinux-dist repository (make sure you git fetch before doing the checkout). Additionaly you need to install the binary toolchain from the nioswiki (you could also build your own, but to get started this should be sufficient) and add them to your $PATH.

Hope that helps.

Tobias