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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

overriding HAL driver, alt_sys_init()

On my system there are 3 uarts and with one of them I'd like to use a custom uart driver. Referring to the software developer's handbook for overriding default device drivers I switched to the softwa...
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15 years ago

I've never attempted what you're trying. However, my suspicion is that the tools are generating the macro calls in alt_sys_init.c based off of the name of the component rather than the name of the driver.

1 - Double check that everything you've done for your driver is consistent and uses the naming "my_uart ..." rather than "altera_avalon_uart ...".

If that doesn't work ...

2 - You may need to actually create a copy of the uart component and rename everything.

Jake