intel fpga - Get more AS-attached flash chip information from ALTASMI

I am playing with the attaching various configuration flash devices to the Altera Cyclone 3. In particular, I want to replace EPCS16 (2MB) with W25Q128 (16MB) - for both size and cost reasons.

Is seems that Altera/Intel does not like people doing this; and there's scarce information about command set accepted by the EPCS devices - I suspect there're more commands than listed in the datasheet. I also read at some other place that EPCS devices are just relabelled devices not made by Altera (as they do not make flash devices for quite a time).

Anyway, datasheet would be very useful when you want to develop your own configuration flash interface IP; at this point I am using ALTASMI_PARALLEL which seem to work properly with W25Q chip.

However this megafunction only allows reading silicon ID (command 0xAB, read_sid), and device identification (command 0x9F, the "capacity ID" part, read_rdid). Both requests work for me using ALTASMI, with SID returning 0x14 (EPCS16) and RDID returning 0x15 (2^21 = 2MB).

Comparing EPCS and W25Q datasheets, I see that both chips report 3 bytes for the command 0x9F (command is called JEDEC ID), but EPCS datasheet says that first two bytes are "dummy". These bytes are expected to hold manufacturer ID and upper 8 bits of device ID.

I suspect EPCS device returns something within these bytes; but Altera did not bother to implement them fetching from the ASMI megafunction as they expect (or want/force) developers using their branded EPCS devices.

Looking to the files created by megafunction I see instance of asmi_altasmi_parallel_pio2_component, only 8 bits of which are used as RDID, and I am unable to find any further infomration (for example, may this submodule be returning 24-bit vector, not only 8 used by ALTASMI module?) this module in the same "asmi" file created by the megafunction :).

Anyone had been dealing with such issue? Reading full JEDEC ID would help definitely identify the flash chip attached.

The good thing is that, with current implementation, I still have capacity ID returned by RDID command, thus at least can know the size of flash (I need it because its first 512K must be write protected). All other info identifying exact chip is not critical and a kind of "cosmetic" just to display it on the screen (at least I do not see how I can use/apply it within current environment).

P.S. Alteraforum migrated to Intel forums. There were more or less independent people there sharing their knowledge, now I get business-protective replies like "not supported" or "you are fool customer". That's why I ask question here in hope there're still independent experts around!