[ECOS] flash base mask question

[John Newlin]

Gary Thomas wrote:

>On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:07, John Newlin wrote:
>  
>
>>In file:
>>
>>/packages/devs/flash/arm/uE250/current/include/uE250_stratflash.inl
>>
>>There is a line that says:
>>
>>#define CYGNUM_FLASH_BASE_MASK  (0xFC000000u) // 32Mb total
>>
>>
>>
>>First question:
>>Does Mb stand for Megabit or MegaByte?
>>
>>
>>If Megabyte should the number not be?
>>~(1024*1024*32-1) which is: 0xfe00_0000  ( i wish c did underscore in
>>numbers like verilog)
>>
>>
>>If it is megaBIT then it would it not be:
>>~(32/8*1024*1024) which is:  0xffc0_0000
>>
>>
>>Or maybe the mask is per device?  There are 2 of these 32MB devices, which
>>would then make a total of 64MB and then the mask would make sense to my
>>simple brain.
>>
>>
>>If the numbers in the file are indeed correct, can someone please explain
>>to me how to derive the mask so that I can put the correct mask for my
>>device?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>It's MegaBytes and in this particular case, the value doesn't match the
>comment :-(
>
>The value should be ~((32*1024*1024)-1) == 0xFE000000.  It's used to 
>take an arbitrary FLASH device and divine the device base address from
>it.  It should correspond to the size of the largest device [set] which
>can be installed.
>
>Note: it's only used by the Intel FLASH device drivers in any case.
>  
>

Gary, thanks for the clarification, that number makes sense to me. 
We have strataflash on our board which is why I picked this as a 
template to copy from.

fis and friends are all happily working.

Thanks,

-john



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