According to the DE5-Net Manual provided with my Stratix V, I have to reboot the PC after reconfiguring the FPGA with the PCIe Reference Design in order for the drivers to work correctly. I want to integrate data transfer via PCIe to the FPGAs DDR3 in another project - this will involve a lot of testing around, and I would really like to avoid constant reboots.
This problem has come up in many threads, but I couldn't find any working solution for a Windows host. The following post asks a similar question, but the answer isn't really concrete. (https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P00003yyQ6eSAE/is-there-a-way-to-avoid-rebooting-pc-after-reconfiging-the-fpga-on-a-pcie-card?language=en_US)
On Linux hosts, it seems to be possible. One workaround seems to be to remove the PCIe device, rescan for new devices, and re-enable the device again. I tried the same on Windows 10, using devcon.exe. After the rescanning step, the PCIe device is listed again in the device manager. However, when I call PCIE_Open from TERASIC_PCIE_AVMM.dll from the provided PCIe SDK, I get a bluescreen with a System_Service_Exception.
I'd be thankful for any hints, as I am pretty new to FPGA programming.
Tim
