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Altera_Forum
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9 years ago

sof2flash, elf2flash and bin2flash returning 255

sof2flash, elf2flash and bin2flash returns 255, without printing anything to stdout or stderr or doing anything useful for Quartus version 12.1 and 13.1 on my computer. I am running Quartus on OpenSuse 13.2 x86_64. Previous this was working and I do not think anything with the Quartus installation has changed, but I reinstalled Quartus 13.1 to be sure and I still get the same behavior. I also have version 15.1 installed and in that version the *2flash programs are working. I have done system updates to OpenSuse since last it was working. Do anyone know what may be wrong or how to further investigate the problem? Is it safe to use the *2flash programs from version 15.1 for projects using version 13.1 until this problem get resolved?

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

    I have one theory that might or might not explain what you've been seeing.

    Your update to SuSE might have removed an older version of some library needed by quartus 12.1 Since SuSE isn't a supported linux platform for Quartus it might not have registered the fact that it needs the older library and the OS thought it was OK to remove it during the upgrade.
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    Altera_Forum
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    9 years ago

    I have the same problem with Quartus 13.1 running on either Windows XP or Windows 7. sof2flash and elf2flash do not produce any output. --help option produces no help output to the console window.

    Altera, can you comment why these tools are not working?