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MEN F210, Cyclone II and Linux

Altera_Forum
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‎05-04-2018 09:38 AM
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Hello everybody, 

I'm trying to get data from the GPS of a board, a MEN F210 [1]. The board is installed in an industrial case and I have Debian 9 installed with kernel 4.15. Altera modules of vanilla kernel are compiled and I can see the FPGA being recognized at startup but I can't see the UART device. The FPGA seems in state unknow. 

 

How do I start the FPGA? I don't have a firmware or anything. I have the MEN tools that should allow me to build the drivers [2] but the software is old and can't make it work (have an Ubuntu 15.04 for that which seems the latest officially supported byt the toolkit). 

 

Can anyone give me a hint? I'm surely missing something. 

 

Thanks 

 

[1] https://www.men.de/products/discontinued-products/f210/ 

[2] https://www.men.de/software/13z025-90/
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Altera_Forum
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‎05-24-2018 02:32 PM
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If anyone interested. 

 

Using kernel 4.16 and some patches that will enter kernel 4.17 I was able to see the UARTs of the board.
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