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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

To "upload the application to Nios" you first need to have a running system (Hardware, FGPGA design, Bootloader, Linux OS, drivers, gnu tools, configuration files).

All this is project specific and not available "out of the box". That is why I did the said demo project for the NEEK hardware. It will not work on any other hardware. (In fact there is not "standard Hardware design" with a NIOS CPU at all.) Moreover I would not recommend playing too much with the said demo project, as IMHO, no-MMU is no-future (apart from some very dedicated project types).

-Michael