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16 years ago

nios2-bsp not finding user components in 9.1?

Hi,

I am porting my class.ptf files into hw.tcl and sw.tcl files going from 7.1 (with 6.1 classic components) to 9.1.

It does not appear that the nios2-bsp command is finding my sw.tcl files as it does not copy the include/source files over and does not reference the INSTANCE and INIT functions in alt_sys_init.c

I know that my sopc builder path is setup properly as the SOPC builder itself finds my user components both the classic ones and the new ones with hw.tcl files.

I have tried copying a couple of my sw.tcl file to my quartus/ip directory but that didn't work either.

I also tried compiling a new 9.1 component with a hw.tcl file into the SOPC project thinking that maybe the bsp could not find sw.tcl file if a class.ptf file was in use (but I have seen altera components use class.ptf with sw.tcl file successfully).

nios2-bsp does not complain about not being able to find anything. It completes successfully?

Any ideas on whats wrong or how to debug this? Is there a project setting that needs to be set to enable using INIT and INSTANCE functions?

Sorry for all the questions, seems like one thing after another...

Thanks in advance

jennifer

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    Where are your components located relative to your SoPC builder system?

    Have you tried using the nios2-bsp-editor to create your settings.bsp file? You do need to specifically specify that the BSP is supposed to make use of a software component.

    Jake
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    Altera_Forum
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    16 years ago

    I use the following command, it makes a settings.bsp file

    nios2-bsp hal bsp_diag_rvp9ifd quartus --default_sections_mapping main_ram --set hal.make.bsp_cflags_debug -g --set hal.make.bsp_cflags_optimization -O2

    I opened it with an editor, it shows Driver Name = none for my modules? So there is no enable check box next to them.
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    16 years ago

    thanks!

    nios2-bsp-editor was very useful in debugging this. I am not used to using the new tools yet. I made a stupid mistake and thought that the version number should be the Nios version number not my component version number due to all the altera examples where their version = nios version.