[ECOS] Re: Nios eCos repository

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

On 2008-12-03, ?yvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com> wrote:

> I'm putting together a Nios eCos repository based on
> nios2ecos51.exe that Altera published a couple of years back.
> This version of eCos HAL is under the eCos license.

Is it a real eCos port, or does it require you to install
Quartus and generate cdl files on the fly using Altera's bogus
Java programs and XML tempates?

> This includes a version of OpenCores Ethermac and eCos drivers
> which works with NEEK. The OpenCores Ethermac is a bit better
> impeadance match with eCos as it is much smaller than TSE.

Which version of the OC mac?  Is it the recent re-write that
uses Altera's interconnect bus or the older buggy version with
the Avalon wrapper around a Wishbone interface?

> The OpenCores Ethermac for Altera needed work, but thanks to
> jakobjones it RX and TX now seems to work fine.

The scary thing about that MAC is that it "seems" to work fine
until you stress it, then it starts dropping packets,
overrunning buffers, and doing various other bad things.

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