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21 years ago

equivalent "safe" mode for nios2?

Hello nios gurus again, Is there an equivalent "safe" mode for the nios II like there was for the nios I? I use the safe mode to quickly do firmware upgrades via tftp in the safe mode. It is ...
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21 years ago

Hi Quan,

There is still a "factory safe" design that starts up a web server that describes the dev board you're using... however, it is just that, a web server. We had to take out the tftp server and file upload capability due to scheduling constraints to get Nios II 1.0 out on-time.

We would like to add this feature back in (and hopefully some more cool features to the factory-safe design) as it was popular and useful; in the mean time you can always keep your board using the Nios v3.2 safe image which has the capability.... the ability to upload a .hexout file to memory works regardless of what is in the .hexout -- so you can use the old 'safe' design to update your board with new "user" Nios II images.