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TBarn2
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7 years ago

Quartus jtagd fails and unable to program MAX10 under Linux (18.1.0.625)

I am having a problem programing MAX10 devices under Linux. It used to work fine but I think some software updates have changed things (kernels?). I am running Fedora29 (although I have the same issu...
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7 years ago

We have used a Terasic USB Blaster and another vendors clone USB Blaster. These both work fine with the three different MAX10 boards we have via a particular Laptop running Linux and via openocd on all systems.

As we are using Linux there is no special USB Blaster driver, it will be using the generic Linux kernels USB driver provably via the libusb API library.

The jtagd program is statically linked so does not use system shared libraries for libusb (assuming it uses linusb). I suspect that is the issue in that the Linux kernels generic USB driver API has changed with updated kernels but the jtagd is using an older API that is not quite correct.