Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorHi Jesse,
Sorry to bring this back up again. I just ran into some minor inconveniences trying to downgrade a nios II dev kit back to nios I safe image. I had to do this to use the tftp capabilities for a much faster than rs232 firmware/software upload. Unfortunately, the only way possible was to use the byteblasterII cable to download the old hexout file, then use GERMS over rs232 to download complete safe image of the old. This took roughly 20 minutes just for the download over serial. This is fine for me, but it was almost impossible for me to instruct others at a remote location on how to accomplish this easily. Before I just sent them a .flash file and they installed using tftp. And on top of that, they would have to install an old version of the nios sdk, version 3.01 or something similar just to access the console port and talk to the uart. I don't mind having to wait long to download a flash image, but this does not seem possible with the nios II dev kit right out of the box. In the old kits, everything was possible right out of the box, i can download new images via tftp, the webserver utilities, or even at worst over serial. And I did not have to install any dev kits to do any of this. Did i miss something? -Quan
