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20 years ago

How to use Compact Flash in eCos?

Hi. I'm having problems accessing the compact flash card in eCos. I tried a program that mount the filesystem to / and write a file to it. But the program hangs when I try to open a file. I have ...
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20 years ago

I think I have found out what the problem was. But not how to solve it. When I use program_flash to program the flash with my program, and the upload the .sof file again from Quartus, then compact flash don't start. But when I use Nios IDE to upload the program into RAM, then the compact flash component starts and I can read and write from the cf. What could be wrong here? I really want to have the hardware design and program in flash so it starts up when I turn on the dev. kit. How do I do this?

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