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20 years ago

Problem Writing CFI FLASH Using NIOS HAL

I'm trying to get the alt_write_flash and alt_erase_flash functions working. When I try to open the FLASH device specified in my system.h using the alt_flash_open_dev function it always ret...
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20 years ago

Hi Nathan,

CFI is a standard protocol to comunicate with flash devices. So if your flash is CFI compatible, you have to write no driver for it: in fact using the HAL implements the driver to use the function "alt_flash_open_dev","alt_erase_flash_block", "alt_write_flash_block" and so on.

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From what I can tell the LLIST that is supposed to have the registered flash components in it is empty[/b]

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What do u mean?