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I've got a design with two nios2 cpus. The idea is that cpu1 runs uClinux to provide a webserver front end, whilst cpu2 is working with some custom on-chip hardware. I 've been able to get ...
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Honored ContributorI've fixed my problem, but in a rather convoluted way, and I'd be grateful if someone could explain how to do it properly.
Here's what I did. Step 1) In the nios2 shell in Windows, changed directory to the /Debug directory in the nios2 IDE that held the C application for cpu2. SOPC Builder>nios2-download -g <cpu2 code>.elf ... loads and runs stand-alone C application happily in cpu2 Step 2) Copied the zImage for uClinux (that I'd made on my Linux box following Hippo's wiki) into the /Debug directory in the nios2 IDE that I'd already used to test a stand-alone C application running in cpu1. Then, in this directory, SOPC Builder>nios2-download -g zImage ... loads ok SOPC Builder>nios2-terminal ... uClinux running ok in cpu1 />
