However, (1) contains FPGA cofniguration + recovery software, which
will help you write to recovery.
What do you mean by "recovery software" ? Upgrades are done via
Ethernet-TCP/IP and/or via serial interface. I suppose when an upgrade
fails, it should be possible to do a new upgrade using the same
channels. So the software used needs to be a complete Linux
distribution. I did not think to be be required to have a second
independent Linux system for recovery.
At least the Insight GUI is usable for both kernel and user space now.
I did only a small test with Insight yet (for a non-Linux project). I
did not have the impression that the usability comes close to what
Eclipse _promises_ to offer.
I am new to Eclipse. It seems we can setup cross compiler and use gdb
without much difficult. I will let you know as I walk through.
Did you take a look at the Microtronix distribution ?
They provide an Eclipse plugin that adds three menu items to the Eclipse
GUI: something like "Linux Kernel project", "Linux Filesystem Project"
and "Linux Application Project". Moreover I suppose they did some work
regarding the debug environment, but I telly you any details here.
Moreover of course it installs the appropriate cross environment (here
in Windows using Cygwin, but of course for a Linux host this should be
not greatly different).
I have an Eclipse based SDK for a non-Linux System. Same works exactly
in the same way (dropping the "Filesystem Project", as there are no
files with that OS).
I suppose the plugins are not really "magic" either, but I have no
knowledge about Java and Eclipse plugins at all.
Maybe you can work together with Ben to make something like this happen.
Thanks again for your answers and your effort to make NIOS usable for
dummies like myself :)
-Michael
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