wrong "fd->length" (flash device)

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, I'm using a CFI Flash memory.

When I interrogate the Flash, by : 

[code=c]

flash_region* regions;

alt_flash_fd* fd;

int number_of_regions = 0;

int ret_code = 0;

int i = 0;

int size = 0; // taille de la flash calculée à partir des infos de régions flash

// ouverture de la flash

fd = alt_flash_open_dev(FLASH_GENERIC_TRISTATE_CONTROLL ER_NAME);

// affichage d'info sur la flash

if (fd)

{

ret_code = alt_get_flash_info(fd, &regions, &number_of_regions);

if (number_of_regions )

{

printf("Flash information :\n");

printf("\tlength : %i\n", fd->length);

for (i=0 ; i < number_of_regions ; i++)

{

printf("\tregion_info[%i]\n", i);

printf("\t\toffset : %i\n", fd->region_info[i].offset);

printf("\t\tregion_size : %i\n", fd->region_info[i].region_size);

printf("\t\tnumber_of_blocks : %i\n", fd->region_info[i].number_of_blocks);

printf("\t\tblock_size : %i\n", fd->region_info[i].block_size);

}

}

}

[/code]

It says

Flash information :

length : [color =red] 4194304[/color]

region_info[0]

offset : 0

region_size : 4128768

number_of_blocks : 63

block_size : 65536

region_info[1]

offset : 4128768

region_size : 65536

number_of_blocks : 8

block_size : 8192

The addition regions gives size 4194304 Bytes, but the length gives 4194304 words (=16 bits)

I have 2 differents flash (32Mb and 64Mb) and they give both 4194304 words

fd->length is not calculated by CFI information but by QSYS. 

Can someone confirm this ?

[Altera_Forum]

By a# define MACRO in altera_avalon_cfi_flash.h : #define ALTERA_AVALON_CFI_FLASH_INSTANCE(name, dev) ... 

(fd -> length) takes information from the system.h <-- generated by BSP <-- generated with QSYS <-- flash information "embeddedsw.CMacro.SIZE" in "module_assignement" when editing the flash component in Qsys Editor.  So, (fd -> length) does NOT take information from CFI flash.  I put here because It may help someone else debugging.