A critical BUG of sopc-create-header-files in quartus 11.0

Altera_Forum · ‎02-16-2012

I am working with nios2-linux on a self designed ep3c80 board these days.

I followed almost everything said by alterawiki, but linux always hangs after a single line "uncompressing linux... OK, booting the kernel." showed, no matter what I changed in kernel configurations or sopc system, it never truns me on...

Yesterday, one of my scrupulous student found some big bugs in xxx_fpga.h which was generated by sopc-create-header-files utility.

They are 4 macro definitions:

#define FAST_TLB_MISS_EXCEPTION_ADDR 0x0
# define EXCEPTION_ADDR 0x0
# define RESET_ADDR 0x0
# define BREAK_ADDR 0x0

They are obviously errors!

Problem solved after I changed them to:

#define FAST_TLB_MISS_EXCEPTION_ADDR <on_chip_mem addr + 0xc0000000>
# define EXCEPTION_ADDR <sdram addr + 0xc0000020>
# define RESET_ADDR <epcs addr(no cfi on my board) + 0xc0000000>
# define BREAK_ADDR <jtga_debug_module addr + 0xc0000020>

It seems to be a bug of sopc-create-header-files utility in quartus 11.0. I don't know whether it has been fixed in recent sp.

Guys working with nios2-linux and quartus 11.0, Please Pay Attention!!!

Altera_Forum · ‎02-29-2012

Yes, this is a known problem and has been reported to Altera.

On a side note: You don't need to use the sopc-create-header-files method anymore with more recent versions of Linux. Instead you can use sopc2dts to generate a Devicetree source file and then pass it to your kernel, see http://alterawiki.com/wiki/devicetree for details.