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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

question about drivers tab in BSP editor.

I am new to NIOS and very confused about the drivers tab in BSP editor.

Please refer to the attached pic, suppose I have LCD driver enabled in drivers tab, but it does not show in the lower left column. Only jtag_uart is showed. why?

Thx...

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    Altera_Forum
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    15 years ago

    I think that driver options are reachable in the sopc builder which allow you to define your nios design.

    for me the bsp editor purpose is to configure your binary files : enable/disable driver, choose c/c++ libraries... to reduce binary size or limit functionalities.
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    15 years ago

    Drivers may have settings defined in the driver's _sw.tcl file. If settings are available then they show up in the lower left panel settings tree, and can be edited in the lower right driver settings panel. Not all drivers have settings.

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    Altera_Forum
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    15 years ago

    thanks for replies. but what's the difference between the settings in "setting" tab and in "drivers" tab? or what's the difference between enable_reduced_device_drivers and enable_small_driver?