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OHarb1
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6 years ago

Is there a way to uninstall nios2eds to save disk (Docker image) size?

nios2eds takes quite a bit of space and I don't need it in my P&R Docker image. Is there a way to uninstall it? It currently takes 7 minutes to pull in a Docker image in Google Cloud (20gByte), nio...
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Ahmed_H_Intel1
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6 years ago

Hi,

Unfortunately, Quartus and certain IPs need Nios II EDS . There is no option to decouple them.

In case of not installing the NIOS II EDS, many IPs will stop working and the Quartus behavior will behave unexpectedly.

Please let me know how can I help you.

Regards,

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OHarb1
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6 years ago

I see.

Please convey to the Intel developers that it is a feature request to be able to reduce the installation size as it reduces the Docker image size, which improves performance of Quartus in the cloud.

Sincerely,