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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

uClinux and Remote Update on Cyclone III

Hi all, I'm trying to implement Remote Firmware Update on a Cyclone III based custom board. The goal is to remotely update the system with both a new sof file and a new zImage. My system boo...
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12 years ago

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This could be helpful, but I think that it is not so efficient to instantiate another CPU just to perform a single operation. Moreover, I think that uC-OSII is not free, so I need to buy also a license, am I right?

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It is free for educational non commercial usage. You may just want to go into the NIOSII-IDE and create the shell project and see how they access the flash to reprogram that may help you.

I googled "remote update uclinux"

Did you see this link:

http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/forum/?_forum_action=forummessagebrowse&thread_id=32005&action=forumbrowse