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11 years ago

Nios SBT for Eclipse BSP build extremely slow

Hello all, I am using Quartus 14.1 Subscription and after I setup a Qsys project plus some custom design I open Nios SBT Eclipse from Tools->Nios II SBT for Eclipse. Then I just create a s...
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11 years ago

How long is long?

That is recompiling all of the C library (just in case some of it depends on the BSP parameters).

A minor change to qsys shouldn't really require everything be rebuilt - but that is the way the BSP and SBT stuff is all designed to work.

Commercially it is unlikely that the people writing the code are the same as those desiging the fpga - so the tight link between the two is 'all wrong'.