[patch 0/4] Altera Nios II port, version 2

[Sandra Loosemore]

On 04/21/2013 06:18 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote:
> I will be posting a 4-part series of patches with support for the Altera
> Nios II target.
>
> part 1: code changes for Nios II target
> part 2: target descriptions
> part 3: gdbserver support
> part 4: testsuite tweak

I'll shortly be posting a revised set of patches.  At Joel's suggestion, 
I've merged part 2 into part 1.  Part 3 hasn't been reviewed yet but 
I've made some changes there anyway for consistency with the other 
patches.  (Among other things, I've addressed Joseph's complaints about 
copyright dates and Joel's generic complaints about comments and 
formatting.)  Part 4 has already been approved and is unchanged so I 
won't be reposting that piece.

> We tested these patches on hardware for both the GNU/Linux and ELF
> targets, not with a simulator.  For ELF testing we used a custom stub
> driving an Altera USB Blaster probe, and for GNU/Linux target we used
> the included gdbserver.

Just as an FYI, we now have free toolchain downloads for Nios II 
available.  These are the compiler and library versions I have been 
using for testing, and the ELF download also includes the BSP and debug 
stub.

http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/sourcery-tools/sourcery-codebench/editions/lite-edition/

-Sandra