Just wanted to make sure of some things..

Hi Scott,

I too have just purchased a Nios II Evaluation Kit and am trying to figure out how to rebuild uCLinux, Ethernet MAC, and SDRAM controller. The tutorials that came with the kit speak primarily of a "Development" kit. I also want to write a very simple udp application to send packets out of the Ethernet interface but the filesystem appears to be set up as a ramdisk. I.e. whatever I do, I lose when I reboot. Finally, the Linux won't boot up unless I plug the USB cable into it and launch a console session.

Do you have any advice on where I can go to find some tutorials / information on how all this works?!

Thanks,

Wade

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originally posted by smcnutt@Aug 25 2005, 05:48 PM

hi mark,

> is it possible to run the uclinux distro on it,

yes.

> and as well have stand-alone fpga programs running as well?

i'm not sure what you mean by "stand-alone fpga programs" ... but here goes:

-yes, you can write your own applications that run under uclinux.

-yes, you can write your own applications that use the hal (no linux).

-no, you can't run them at the same time.

> an example would be me running an adc program

... snip ...

> and then in turn, output it via ethernet.

yes, this is where uclinux and nios ii are a great match. you can do this with

a simple device driver and a simple application. you could even setup the web server

to monitor data via a browser.

regards,

--scott

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