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14 years ago

Linux on Nios- where to start?

Hello, After I installed all development tools and was able to run a sample linux project from alterawiki I discovered that there are no books or at least tutorials on first steps in Linux on N...
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14 years ago

With deeply embedded Linux projects (on "small" devices), the OS itself always is part of the project and thus needs to be configured and compiled accordingly to the needs of the project.

I once did publish a "binary distribution" for the "NEEK" development board (with the no-MMU flavor of the CPU), which might be usable for the first steps you might want to do. It should be hidden somewhere in the new NIOS Wiki, which now is much harder to use than the old one was, as the (old, no-MMU centric) "uCLinux" distribution page is no longer easily findable any more.

-Michael