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20 years ago

Reducing syslib size

I use Nios II and Quartus 5.0. When I build my application using "small" syslib. The library takes about 15 kB. Is there a way to make my own custom library that would contain only startup code and w...
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20 years ago

Do I need to initialize jtag uart if one is present in the system? I noticed that I could reduce footprint by writing my own alt_main which does not initialize any device drivers. I have jtag uart and epcs controller, but the bootloader that I am writing is not going to use them. It turned out that if I don't initialize jtag uart I can't get my code to work!

Does this have something to do with time-limited version that I am testing with or a feature that will remain even when I get a license?