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ERROR: Failed to initialize the S5_CVP library: Failed to initialize the WDC library. Error 0x20000001 - Invalid handle
Description
You may see this error if you are trying to configure your device using quartus_cvp on a Linux machine and the driver has failed to load.
A possible cause for the driver failing to load is that the kernel does not have a large enough virtual memory allocation. You can confirm that there is a problem with virtual memory allocation by checking the kernel ring buffer messages using dmesg. If there is a problem with virtual memory allocation you will see the following message:
vmap allocation for size 268439552 failed: use vmalloc= to increase size.
Resolution
If you are using the GRUB bootlaoder (used for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6), to pass the vmalloc= parameter to the kernel, add it to the global kopt parameter in /boot/grub/menu.lst, which will look like this:
kopt=root=UUID=1029384-7e40-ffd2-9968-7a8b9e78f9g7s ro vmalloc=192M
You will need to increase vmalloc to > 512M.