well, I'm still stuck
I thought I'd see something like this
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Freeing unused kernel memory: 676k freed (0x1f6000 - 0x29e000)
mmc0: new SD card on SPI
mmcblk0: mmc0:0000 TWTTI 124672KiB
mmcblk0: p1 p2
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on boot, as ashown in nioswiki
so I thought of a few possible problems
1. pin assignments
2. IP core not configured as should
3. driver not loaded
now I'm down to either it's an IP problem or driver problem
so just to make sure again
it is Altera's SPI (3 wire interface) IP, right? not someone else's similar IP?
and if so could someone show me the right configuration?
Thanks again,
Asaf