Nios 2 I2c timeout altera_avalon_i2c.c - timeout never occurs

Well, solved this issue, but I did not like editing the intel avalon driver.

on line 581 of the driver I changed retry from 100000 to 100.

This times out in about 10 seconds. i think 100000 is just way too many and takes forever.

Now the problem is that I need to read some registers beyond 0xFF.

I need to read registers 0x149 and a few other register addresses higher than that. It seems the driver ALSO limits this even though the register variable passed into i2c_read_reg is an alt_u16.

So this is my real question.....how to read registers past 0xFF. I can read up until there, but once I try 0x100 there are errors.