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10 years ago

Need to route stdout to standard UART instead of JTAG UART

Hi, I have a Nios II system that is running Linux 3.10.31 and I would like to update my system configuration so that the kernel debug messages during bootup that are sent to stdout are routed t...
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10 years ago

Hi TCWORLD,

Thank you for your reply.

I'm booting from Linux so I'm not using the Altera Software Build Tool (SBT) chain that allows me to select the default output device for stdout.

I'm currently heading down the path that involves updating the kernel build as well as the appropriate support files to use the Altera UART instead of the JTAG UART.

- Brad