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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Boot errors

In trying to get the new distro to load and run, we see boot errors about "attempting to access beyond end of device." We have a 16MB device on the board (8Mx16) that is directly supported by NIOS2, ...
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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

The MTD map for Altera's kits is for 8 bit flash, while your flash chip is 16 bit wide. I think this is the problem. There is another map for Microtronix kits, which features 16 bit flash chips. In order to use that, you have to set the platform as microtronix cyclone kit. You also need to change the size of the map, which right now is only 8M.

The changes in the map definition brought some inconveniences, but also some benefits, such as jffs2 support, etc.