Nios V, Max10, N25Q512A QSPI, XIP

Hello all.

I have this Max10 Dev Kit, it has 512Mbit N25Q512A QSPI flash.

I have a Nios V/m processor, and if I execute out of on-chip memory everything works fine.

I'd like to try Execute in place (XIP).

In Platform Designer I'm using the "Generic Serial Flash Interface Intel FPGA IP" component.

In the Nios V/m I have my reset vector pointing to "external_flash.avl_mem", offset is zero.

In the bsp-editor my .reset and .text are pointed at external_flash.

I convert app.elf to app.hex with:

elf2flash --input=app.elf --output=flash.srec --reset=0 --base=0 --end=0x3ffffff
riscv32-unknown-elf-objcopy --input-target srec --output-target ihex flash.srec app.hex

Then I use "Convert Programming File" to convert app.hex to app.pof (using device CFI_512Mb). app.pof only contains the app.hex, I remove the "SOF Data" page, and Add Hex Data.

I use the "Parallel Flash Loader ii" to write app.pof to QSPI_Flash.

Then I reflash the Max10 with my nios.pof, but nothing runs.

Is this supported? Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your time.