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uClinux boot problem on Cyclone IV

Altera_Forum
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Hi everyone, 

 

I am a newbie of uClinux. My PC environment is CentOs 5.5 + nios2gcc-20080203.tar.bz2 + nios2-linux-20100621.tar. 

 

I want to download uclinux to my custom board, whose FPGA is EP4C30. And the ptf file is generated in Quartus10.1.  

I carefully follow the steps of the wiki: 

make menuconfig (default) 

make hwselect 

make 

nios2-configure-sof 

nios2-download -g 

nios2-terminal 

However, the system always halts after the sentence, "Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.". 

I have changed the ".ptf" file to ".ptf.pre_generation_ptf" file, the performance is the same. 

 

Then I changed to download uclinux to another custom board. Whose FPGA is EP3C40, and the ptf file is generated in Quartus8.1. 

I followed the same steps, but it works well.  

 

I am a little puzzled. Because the sopc configuration is almost the same. I also note the irq 0. 

 

I don't know whether nios2-linux-20100621.tar supports Cyclone4. I need your help. 

 

Thank you. 

 

Derek
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Altera_Forum
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Now, I build a smallest system as the wiki, and it works in EP4C. I think it must be a mistake of my pre-sopc.

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Altera_Forum
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just wondered if you have a data cache in your nios. We cant get Linux to boot on our Cyclone III system if the NIOS data cache is greater than 8K

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