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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Your hardware and uClinux

Hi again, Adding an Avalon custom hardware and its software driver (either HAL or not) is easy and straightforward. Having said that I mean the standard Nios II IDE project_syslib/system_descri...
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21 years ago

I guess it depends if you want to build a proper Linux driver for your avalon hardware. The basic IRQ and base address for your hardware should appear within the

<project>/build/include/nios2_system.h

file in your kernel project directory.

If you&#39;re not interested in building a driver, then the hardware can be accessed from a regular Linux application as it would be in a non-HAL standalone application.

If you&#39;re interested in building a driver, I think there was a thread in this forum to help you get started...