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10 years ago

Quartus and Windows 10

Since Windows 10 will be released in the upcoming weeks I am wondering if some people have used a testversion of W10 with Quartus and Modelsim and what their experiences are. In other words do they both work on Windows 10?

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    10 years ago

    Thank you for sharing this info. I have not yet have Windows 10 now but soon will get it installed.

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    10 years ago

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    Q15 works fine

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    Quartus Prime 15.1 (and 14.1) also tested with Win 10 OS.

    However, if you also use Altera EDS-SOC 15.1/ ARM DS5, I experienced the following problem:

    building an officially released bare-metal sw example e.g. altera-socfpga-hardwarelib-fpga-cv-gnu the cygwin shell gives some fatal errors like: 

    arm-altera-eabi-objdump -d hwlib.axf > hwlib.axf.objdump
      8  sh 6492 c:\altera\15.1\embedded\host_tools\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error in forked process - fork: can't reserve memory for parent stack 0x600000 - 0x800000, (child has 0x400000 - 0x600000), win32 error 487
    243  sh 6492 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: dumping stack trace to sh.exe.stackdump
      8  sh 4080 fork: child -1 - forked process 6492 died unexpectedly, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
/usr/bin/sh: fork: retry: no child processes

    etc.

    This error above is also with ARM DS5 14.1.

    Any help to solve this problem is greatly appreciated.

    Thanks:

    Zsolt
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    10 years ago

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    [url]why don't just use those that had been tested?

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    Not everyone has the luxury of having multiple OS'. Where I come from you have to really look for non-10 systems.
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    10 years ago

    You could always install a supported version of linux... that is free.

    You could even run it inside a virtual machine on your windows machine.
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    10 years ago

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    You could always install a supported version of linux... that is free.

    You could even run it inside a virtual machine on your windows machine.

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    Tricky -

    What, if any, performance penalty would you expect running Quartus in a linux VM on a Windows machine vs. native linux on the same machine?

    Thanks,

    Bob
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    10 years ago

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    Tricky -

    What, if any, performance penalty would you expect running Quartus in a linux VM on a Windows machine vs. native linux on the same machine?

    Thanks,

    Bob

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    No Idea - you'd have to ask Altera about that.

    But Ive run Quartus in a Linux VM on a Linux server - works just fine.