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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 05:58:55PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> This is fourth version of the series. Previous versions can be found:
> 
>   v3: https://lwn.net/Articles/697231/
>   v2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068277.html
>   v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/269
> 
> This patch series adds support for the Intel SPI serial flash controller
> found on many recent Intel CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. This
> driver makes it possible to access the BIOS and other platform data which
> is stored on the SPI serial flash. It is also possible to upgrade the BIOS
> using this driver if it has not been protected by special hardware bits.
> 
> The patch [1/3] includes documentation how to upgrade BIOS on MinnowBoard
> MAX.
> 
> Since poking the SPI serial flash can brick the machine, this driver can
> only be enabled when CONFIG_EXPERT=y and even then it will remain read-only
> unless instructed othwerwise by module parameter.
> 
> This missed v4.8 and v4.9 so it would be really nice to get it finally
> included in v4.10.

Adding the new MTD and SPI-NOR maintainers. Any change getting this
merged for v4.10?