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14 years ago

Problem with Advanced Bootcopier

I am trying to implement the advanced boot copier in my Nios Design and at the moment I am not able get it work. First of all I included the advanced_boot_copier.h to my design and set the adv...
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14 years ago

I'd look at the program sections in the elf file and see if the numbers match. It might be that the imiage is trying to cover a massive gap in the address space.

IIRC the EPCS boot code can only load to a contiguous address block (this really should be fixed by Altera) so usually all the initialised data is linked to physical addresses that follow the code - and the first code the nios runs copies it into the required places.

This just doesn't work unless you are loading into SDRAM (assumed to be big).