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14 years ago

How to read from a onchip memory

Hello i want to read data from some adress at the onchip memory, i can do it with IORD and IOWR using altera HAL functions. However those functions are not available for me inside the linux
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14 years ago

You won't be able to access memory directly from userspace in linux. You'll probably have to write a kernel driver or module. On the other hand, You can access heap memory if it is set in BSP config by using malloc().