bin2flash problems

[Altera_Forum]

Hello, 

 I&#39;m trying to upload a linux kernel image to the Microtronix Stratix development board. The "Nios II Linux Quickstart Guide" says to right click on the build/vmlinux.bin file and select &#39;upload&#39;. When I do this, I get the following error:   ------------------------------------------------ Microtronix Linux Extensions Version 1.1, Built Wed Jul 7 12:46pm EST 2004 ------------------------------------------------ Expected integer value for option &#39;location&#39;  Value was: &#39;null&#39;  Using default value: -1 The bin2flash utility converts any binary data file to a FLASH file that can be used by the flash programmer.  usage: bin2flash [--help] [--debug] [--silent] [--flash=designator]  [--input=file] [--quiet] [--epcs] [--base=addr] [--log=file]  [--location=addr] [--output=file] [--verbose]   Options may be specified in any order.   --base=<addr> flash base address  --debug debug mode  --epcs epcs flash mode  --flash=<designator> flash device reference designator  --help print this message  --input=<file> input Binary file to process  --location=<addr> design location within the flash  --log=<file> file for logging progress  --output=<file> output flash file  --quiet only print errors  --silent silent mode - same as quiet  --verbose lots of interesting information    I&#39;ve been able to sucessfully run bin2flash from the Nios II SDK shell command line where I can specify a value for the --location parameter.  Does anybody know how to specify the location parameter through the Nios II IDE?  Thanks, Terry

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, there is a bug that leaves out an attribute in one of the tags in the <project>.stf file when you apply changes in the project property page. 

 To remedy this, you can open up the <project>.stf file in an editor and add  offset='0x0'  to the location_on_target tag.  So your tag should look like this:  <location_on_target offset=&#39;0x0&#39;>  Save these changes and you should be able to upload the kernel image without a problem.  (note: the same problem will occur when applying changes in a filesystem project&#39;s property page; for a filesystem project, the offset should be 0x200000)  This bug will be corrected in the next release of the Nios II Linux Distribution.

[Altera_Forum]

Randy, 

 Thanks for the reply. I tried your suggestion but when I try to do the upload now I get a pop-up window that says:  "Could not read project STF file."  The stf file now contains:  <?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39; encoding=&#39;UTF-8&#39;?> <stf>  <project name=&#39;kernel_project&#39; ptf=&#39;D:\work\NiosII_Mtx_Stratix\LDK2.ptf&#39; cpu=&#39;cpu&#39;>  </project>  <location_on_target offset=&#39;0x0&#39;>  flash_kernel  </location_on_target>  <execution_location>  sdram  </execution_location> </stf>   Does this look correct?   I was able to work around this problem by using the bin2flash and nios2-flash-programmer command line utilities; so really this is more of a bug report than an urgent problem.  Maybe there should be a bug-report forum or something like that added to this site.  Thanks for the help.  Terry