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16 years ago

nios2-linux on DE0 (Cyclone III /EP3C16F484)

Hi, today I wanted to try out running linux on my DE0 board [1] which I thought should be possible. I followed the tutorial on [2] which uses also a cyclone III. Compiling the source an...
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16 years ago

Ah - adding the tightly coupled instruction / data masters and recreating the system it worked and the system compiled quite fine - even downloading worked.

However after downloading and attaching a nios2-terminal nothing is displayed :/ 


/cygdrive/c/altera/DE0_NIOS_SDCARD
$ nios2-download -g linux.initramfs.gz
Using cable "USB-Blaster ", device 1, instance 0x00
Pausing target processor: OK
Initializing CPU cache (if present)
OK
Downloaded 2108KB in 36.6s (57.5KB/s)
Verified OK
Starting processor at address 0xC1800000
/cygdrive/c/altera/DE0_NIOS_SDCARD
$ nios2-terminal.exe
nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
nios2-terminal: "USB-Blaster ", device 1, instance 0
nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)

Any ideas?