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14 years ago

Question on Git Branches to use [nios2mmu vs unstable-nios2mmu]

Hi everyone I'm currenlty looking into using Linux on the NIOS for my company. Will be getting a DE4 from Terassic shortly but in the meantime I'm doing all the prepwork to understand as much a...
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14 years ago

Hi Pierre, did get it to download in the end, but it does not boot successfully, during the bootup process I get

BUG: failure at /home/antonie.christie/nios2-linux/linux-2.6/arch/nios2/kernel/time.c:128/nios2_late_time_init()!

Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG!

I am running on custom hardware with a CPU based on the golden reference for the cycloneIII devkit. I've got a bit of debugging to do and I suspect my hardware or CPU design to be the main cause.

Good luck with the rest of the development...