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Altera_Forum
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19 years ago

OverClocked full featured problems

Hello All http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

First .. I&#39;d like to give GREAT thanks to Hippo .. and to all members of this fantastic forum .. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif

I have a 2C35 board..

i was success in creating a bootable image having my application.. runs perfect on the standard processor..

i also had an overclocked (125 MHz) full featured processor .. i tested it wih my application as a single threaded program (no uClinux) .. it was working very good..

when i tried to build a new image based on the overclocked processor

it did very weird hings when booting ..

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[SOPC Builder]$ nios2-terminal

nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable

nios2-terminal: "USB-Blaster [USB-0]", device 1, instance 0

nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)

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overpass initiaUncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

Linux version 2.6.16-uc0 (tarek@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 3.4.6)# 10 P

REEMPT Tue Jun 27 16:42:49 EEST 2006

uClinux/Nios II

Altera Nios II support © 2004 Microtronix Datacom Ltd.

Built 1 zonelists

Kernel command line:

PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 4096 bytes)

overpass initialization step

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overpass initialization step

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8[/b]

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and it coninues counting to 47 ..then display this dummy message ... and repeat this for ever .. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif

The question is :: is the problem with the " full feaured CPU " or with " OverClocking" ??

I have another question.. pls any1 help ..

I had enabled the ethernet .. i want to read large files from my PC to process them on the board ..

wha can i use to do so ...

is there a samba client for uClinux ?

or maybe Ftp ..?? but how ..?? i dont know how to configure ftp !

pls help !

Thanks a TON ..great guys http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif

4 Replies

  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    19 years ago

    Please check in sopc builder,

    the interrupt vector (ie, exception vector) should be in uClinux program memory, ie sdram.

    If you change sopc project,

    you have to "make clean" the uClinux-dist-test dir. Then run "make linux_hwselect ...." again.

    You may use ftp, setup ftp server on pc, and use ftpget/put/wget of busybox in nios2.
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    19 years ago

    Hippo .. thanks for your help ..

    but the default in SOPC is that the vector is loaded in SDRAM.. i did not change it .

    what i saw when trying to make hw_select

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    --- Please select which CPU you wish to build the kernel against:

    (1) cpu - Class: altera_nios2 Type: f Version: 5.1

    Selection: 1

    --- Please select a device to upload the kernel to:

    (1) ext_flash

    Class: altera_avalon_cfi_flash

    Size: 16777216 bytes

    Selection: 1

    --- Please select a device to execute kernel from:

    (1) ssram

    Class: altera_avalon_cy7c1380_ssram

    Size: 2097152 bytes

    (2) tightly_coupled_instruction_memory

    Class: altera_avalon_onchip_memory2

    Size: 2048 bytes

    (3) tightly_coupled_data_memory

    Class: altera_avalon_onchip_memory2

    Size: 2048 bytes

    (4) epcs_controller

    Class: altera_avalon_epcs_flash_controller

    Size: 2048 bytes

    (5) ddr_sdram

    Class: ddr_sdram_component

    Size: 33554432 bytes

    Selection: 5[/b]

    --- Quote End ---

    i tried to change some minor settings .. now the error message is changed

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    [SOPC Builder]$ nios2-terminal

    nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable

    nios2-terminal: "USB-Blaster [USB-0]", device 1, instance 0

    nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)

    Error

    Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.[/b]

    --- Quote End ---

    and it hangs at this point .

    i tried several builds based on several ptf s .. with different cashes (Data and Instr) .. all the CPU builds gave almost the same error results..

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    about files from my PC .. i saw an option in the eithernet called " Samba file system " .. will this make the job ?? or you sill suggest using ftp server on my PC ?

    ..

    Thanks a lot Hippo .. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    19 years ago

    SSSOOORRRRRRYYY .... Mr Hippo ..

    you were totally correct.. i fixed the interrupt vector .. and booted very fine ..

    the CPU&#39;s performance was perfect .. much more than thought.

    The single threaded prog. decoded some video sequence in 0.4 sec

    now ..under uClinux ... the same job was done in 0.22 sec

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    if u dont mind.. pls reply me concerning the ftp or samba client ..

    thanks in advance

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    19 years ago

    You are doing very well. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif

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    You may use ftp, setup ftp server on pc, and use ftpget/put/wget of busybox in nios2.[/b]

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    It is easy to use ftp , http or nfs.

    you may setup any of these servers on PC.

    I didn&#39;t work through smb on nios2 yet. ( the code size is much bigger ).