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Honored ContributoruClinux boot from epcs ?
If someone like me wants to run uCLinux on a Nios2 but the fpga must not be a bga type then the biggest fpga available is EP2C20 with QFP 240 pins. That one can be handsoldered http://forum.niosforu...
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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- originally posted by jdhar@Feb 28 2006, 01:46 AM related to this, what are the advantages of using u-boot? i mean, altera seems to have included a nice little boot copier that copies code from either cfi or epcs to ram and then boots, along with their flash programming utility. so to boot a kernel from epcs, it should be as simple as downloading it to the config device and pointing to the altera boot copier.
are there any advantages of u boot?
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--- Quote End --- I boot from EPCS with the Altera boot copier and it works perfectly (Only with Quartus 5.1 and NiosII 5.1, the 5.0 versions had a bug which made it VERY slow). But if you want more control, load the kernel over the network, change parameters, choose a different kernel each time you boot etc. you need u-boot. I personally don't need it since I just use one kernel which I stored in EPCS. But the Altera bootcopier gives you zero flexibility.
