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Hello can anybody help me ? I have modified the NIOS II CFI-drivers so they now support an 8-bit CFI-AMD-flash device. Afterwards I have tested it using the "flash_tests"-program (through the N...
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Honored ContributorJust another question, Goon :
when you said you modified the driver, I suppose you were talking about the HAL driver, not the SDK driver. Have you any idea on how the firmware_ROM.hex file is compiled ? I guess it contains a part of the flash drivers, but it is pre-compiled and simply copied to the design directory when you execute the mk_target_board, so I don't understand how the modifications you made to the driver were taken into account to have the flash programmer work, unless the driver is sent to the Nios through the JTAG.... I am obviously missing something..... Thanks, Pod
