Hi Walter Thank you for your quick response . Some comments inline
On Friday, November 18, 2016, Walter Goossens <waltergooss...@home.nl> wrote: > Hi David, > > A few steps to try. > have you tested your kernel on the MAX10 Neek? > > Yes that's the first thing I did > > Have you tried running the kernel directly using nios2-downloag -g ? > Not really, i did that only with the other sample applications. Good call, I'll do that > > One easy way of seeing what goes on is to simply put a signaltap on your > Nios2. You can see a lot from the memory-accesses it makes. There's also a > nice nios plugin for signaltap, but I haven't used it much, I'm not sure if > it was MMU capable. > That's exactly my next step, i put the signaltap and I will be debugging it early on next week > > > > Hope this helps. > It does thanks a lot ! > > > > Walter > > On 11/18/2016 11:01 PM, David Cemin wrote: > > Hi > > We are developing a custom board based on a Max10 device. We are trying to > bring up linux on it (we have done this successfully on a MAX10 Neek > evaluation board already, and our hardware design is based off that board) > > Ive compiled the linux kernel and generated the hex as in: > > $ elf2flash --base=0x0 --input=vmlinux --end=0xfffffff --reset=0x0 > --boot=$SOPC_KIT_NIOS2/components/altera_nios2/boot_loader_cfi.srec > > nios2-elf-objcopy -O ihex vmlinux.flash vmlinux.hex > > > So the command above will embed the default bootloader to the linux image. > > we are trying to boot it up but I dont see anything on the serial port. I > am assuming that what I did above for the kernel is correct, but i might be > wrong. > > What are the normal steps for debugging the default bootloader? Is there a > way of seeing (through Jtag for instance) whats going on on the default > bootloader ? > > Its important to mention that the example applications (hello world + > memory test) are running fine. > > Thank you > > regards, > > David > > -- > > *+1 (343) 777-1735* David Cemin http://coveloz.com > > > <http://coveloz.com/> > > > _______________________________________________ > Rfi mailing list...@lists.rocketboards.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Rfi@lists.rocketboards.org');>http://lists.rocketboards.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rfi > > > -- Sent from my phone +1 (343) 777-1735
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