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unaligned half-word flash memory access on a EB55/AT91
- From: Marcel Ovidiu Achim <marcel dot achim at ovidius-ib dot de>
- To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 20:51:17 +0200
- Subject: [ECOS] unaligned half-word flash memory access on a EB55/AT91
Hi all,
I am using eCos on an Atmel EB55 board. For an application I need to
store data into the on board flash device. My compiled code seams to
do an unaligned access to the on board flash which is enabled by the
NCS0 line.
This is a very simple code for a better understanding.
// Set the EBI_CSR0 register for 16 bit access etc.
HAL_WRITE_UINT32(0xFFE00000, 0x010030A1);
// Write 0xAA to address 0x555 of into the flash device.
// Note: this is not the whole prog. seq.
HAL_WRITE_UINT16(0x01000000 + 0x555, 0xAA);
An osciloscope shows that the write seqence did start from A0
instead of A1 which should be implicated for a half-word access.
The header file hal_io.h defines HAL_WRITE_UNIT16 to be of type
"short". However, for my compiled code short is 32bit (word) wide.
I expected "short" to be 16 bit. I compiled my code with gcc without
any flags.
I wonder why gcc compiles "short" into a "word" type. Do I need to
set a flag for gcc while compiling my code or do I even need to
recompile gcc itself? Is there any other register for the AT91 that
influence the MAS[0:1] bus for the ARM7TDMI to force the core to do
a half-word reading or writing?
Thanks for your advice and greetings from Stuttgart/Germany
Marcel Achim
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