diff --git a/control/descriptor.c b/control/descriptor.c
index 09130a5c374f87d68ed712f20368fc8c6182fe8f..2cbd9fd18099538deb33dd3e493c377f5ea3e773 100644
--- a/control/descriptor.c
+++ b/control/descriptor.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @copyright 2009-2014 The University of Tennessee and The University of
  *                      Tennessee Research Foundation. All rights reserved.
- * @copyright 2012-2022 Bordeaux INP, CNRS (LaBRI UMR 5800), Inria,
+ * @copyright 2012-2023 Bordeaux INP, CNRS (LaBRI UMR 5800), Inria,
  *                      Univ. Bordeaux. All rights reserved.
  *
  ***
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  * @author Guillaume Sylvand
  * @author Raphael Boucherie
  * @author Samuel Thibault
- * @date 2022-02-22
+ * @date 2022-12-13
  *
  ***
  *
@@ -100,12 +100,13 @@ void chameleon_desc_init_tiles( CHAM_desc_t *desc, blkrankof_fct_t rankof )
     for( jj=0; jj<desc->lnt; jj++ ) {
         for( ii=0; ii<desc->lmt; ii++, tile++ ) {
             int rank = rankof( desc, ii, jj );
-            tile->format = CHAMELEON_TILE_FULLRANK;
-            tile->rank   = rank;
-            tile->m      = ii == desc->lmt-1 ? desc->lm - ii * desc->mb : desc->mb;
-            tile->n      = jj == desc->lnt-1 ? desc->ln - jj * desc->nb : desc->nb;
-            tile->mat    = (rank == desc->myrank) ? desc->get_blkaddr( desc, ii, jj ) : NULL;
-            tile->ld     = desc->get_blkldd( desc, ii );
+            tile->format  = CHAMELEON_TILE_FULLRANK;
+            tile->flttype = (int8_t)(desc->dtyp);
+            tile->rank    = rank;
+            tile->m       = ii == desc->lmt-1 ? desc->lm - ii * desc->mb : desc->mb;
+            tile->n       = jj == desc->lnt-1 ? desc->ln - jj * desc->nb : desc->nb;
+            tile->mat     = (rank == desc->myrank) ? desc->get_blkaddr( desc, ii, jj ) : NULL;
+            tile->ld      = desc->get_blkldd( desc, ii );
 #if defined(CHAMELEON_KERNELS_TRACE)
             chameleon_asprintf( &(tile->name), "%s(%d,%d)", desc->name, ii, jj );
 #endif
diff --git a/include/chameleon/struct.h b/include/chameleon/struct.h
index 785185550aa8243fe8571fddd76db692bf4fbfeb..e5df8fa6d030c831598cce505de55981bea35cca 100644
--- a/include/chameleon/struct.h
+++ b/include/chameleon/struct.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  *
  * @copyright 2009-2014 The University of Tennessee and The University of
  *                      Tennessee Research Foundation. All rights reserved.
- * @copyright 2012-2022 Bordeaux INP, CNRS (LaBRI UMR 5800), Inria,
+ * @copyright 2012-2023 Bordeaux INP, CNRS (LaBRI UMR 5800), Inria,
  *                      Univ. Bordeaux. All rights reserved.
  *
  ***
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
  * @author Florent Pruvost
  * @author Samuel Thibault
  * @author Matthieu Kuhn
- * @date 2022-02-22
+ * @date 2022-12-13
  *
  */
 #ifndef _chameleon_struct_h_
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ typedef struct chameleon_tile_s {
     void  *mat;
     int    rank, m, n, ld;
     int8_t format;
+    int8_t flttype;
 } CHAM_tile_t;
 
 /**