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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Writing the .flash file to flash on the target

Greetings, I would like to do the similar functions that nios2-flash-programmer performs on the target. So I need to know what nios-flash-programmer does on the target. Does nios2-flash-pr...
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13 years ago

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No as a matter of fact the altera bootloader can load several chunks of data at different memory addresses. Each chunk starts with a 8 byte header, 4 bytes with the destination address and 4 bytes with the chunk size. ....

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In which case a direct convertion from the ELF program file has to be easier to generate than going via SREC format.

I could probably generate it in a shell script by parsing the output of 'objdump -p' and using 'dd' to copy over the data blocks.