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16 years ago

The different toolchain from niosWiki : disambiguous

Hi I am new on this forum. I got a nios2 board last years and i want to set up Linux on it. With the help of nioswiki.com i saw that there exist a distribution for mmu and for nommu (even if ...
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16 years ago

nommu uclinux uses a special object format called "binary flat", and doesn't support dynamic libraries. so the toolchains are different.

I would suggest starting with mmu, as nommu branch will be merged into mmu. You

may follow the try out of mmu linux first.

http://nioswiki.com/try_out_without_compilation

Then you may download the new tarball pointed at,

http://nioswiki.com/linux/downloading_linux_distribution (http://alteraforum.com/forum/showpost.php?p=94092&postcount=3)

- Hippo