AOCL with the DE5-Net on Ubuntu workstation : Recompiling the PCIe driver from source

Hi zHiO.o,

I had figured some of these steps out already, the community here is very good!

There is a bit more to do with regards to step# 1; are the __devinit and __devexit macros no longer required?

Also pci_restore_state(aclpci->pci_dev) function call no longer returned a result 0, as it returns void.

A simple recoding later and aclpci_cmd.c was all set.

I found out about step# 3 a little bit too late, but thankfully was able to realize what was going on and migrate the script-generated files from the /tmp/ folder.

Your instruction is a life-saver to anyone possibly running into this scenario in the future.

Thank you!

Victor

PS: Although the reprogram has been recompiled successfully and I can run aocl install without a hitch, I tried flashing using

> aocl flash de5net_a7 blank.aocx

where blank.aocx is a blank program supplied by Terasic (or Altera?) for me to run verification. I get

aocl flash: Running flash from /opt/altera/14.0/hld/board/terasic/de5net/linux64/bin
Error: Currently only .bin files are accepted.
       Please use the .bin from the original compiled project

I think I'll figure it out, but really I'm at a loss as to what the error message means.

I should be able to work it out once I understand the error.

Should I start a new thread since this is a different issue?

Edit: Whoops. Forgot to edit this post earlier to say that I quickly found out what was going on.

It seems that the blank.aocx was compiled for an earlier version (13.1).

Therefore flashing with it gave funny errors.

I simply acquired a more uptodate BSP from Terasic's mail server.

Refer to: http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45720

And here is the link mentioned in post# 9 and also passed onto me from the support team at Terasic:

http://mail.terasic.com.cn/~wyzhou/terasic.zip