| Description | This object will give the minimum partition size
supported for this device. For systems that execute code
directly out of Flash, the minimum partition size needs
to be the bank size. (Bank size is equal to the size of a
chip multiplied by the width of the device. In most cases,
the device width is 4 bytes, and so the bank size would be
four times the size of a chip). This has to be so because
all programming commands affect the operation of an
entire chip (in our case, an entire bank because all
operations are done on the entire width of the device)
even though the actual command may be localized to a small
portion of each chip. So when executing code out of Flash,
one needs to be able to write and erase some portion of
Flash without affecting the code execution.
For systems that execute code out of DRAM or ROM, it is
possible to partition Flash with a finer granularity (for
eg., at erase sector boundaries) if the system code supports
such granularity.
This object will let a management entity know the
minimum partition size as defined by the system.
If the system does not support partitioning, the value
will be equal to the device size in ciscoFlashDeviceSize.
The maximum number of partitions that could be configured
will be equal to the minimum of
ciscoFlashDeviceMaxPartitions
and
(ciscoFlashDeviceSize / ciscoFlashDeviceMinPartitionSize).
If the total size of the flash device is greater than the
maximum value reportable by this object then this object should
report its maximum value(4,294,967,295) and
ciscoFlashDeviceMinPartitionSizeExtended must be used to report
the flash device's minimum partition size. |