Re: spi-nor: maxronix MX25L12835F support

Tudor.Ambarus
2021-02-18T07:58:01Z

Hi, Zhengxun, Mason,

On 2/18/21 7:45 AM, zhengxunli@mxic.com.tw wrote:
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> Hi,
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> <Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com> wrote on 2021/02/16 下午 07:15:33:
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>> <Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com>
>> 2021/02/16 下午 07:15
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>> To
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>> <michael@walle.cc>, <p.yadav@ti.com>, <ycllin@mxic.com.tw>,
>> <zhengxunli@mxic.com.tw>, <juliensu@mxic.com.tw>,
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>> cc
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>> <heiko.thiery@gmail.com>, <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
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>> Subject
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>> Re: spi-nor: maxronix MX25L12835F support
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>> Hi, all,
>>
>> +zhengxunli, juliensu & ycllin
>>
>> On 2/16/21 11:48 AM, Michael Walle wrote:
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>>> Am 2021-02-16 10:27, schrieb Pratyush Yadav:
>>>> On 15/02/21 10:53PM, Heiko Thiery wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I faced an issue with a SPI flash on our board. We use a macronix
>>>>> MX25L12835F [1]. Unfortunately this flash has the same JEDEC ID like
>>>>> the MX25L12805D [2].
>>>>>
>>>>> The newer MX25L12835F has support for dual/quad read mode and RDSFDP
>>>>> while the older doesn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> I thought that I could do a fixup with a device specific
>>>>> post_bfpt_fixups() call but by now this seems not possible. The
> older
>>>>> MX25L12805D has no flags set that allows a call to
>>>>> spi_nor_sfdp_init_params() and implements the fixup.
>>>>>
>>>>> Has anyone an idea how to solve this?
>>
>> Maybe macronix can help with some suggestions on how to differentiate
>> between flashes at runtime.
>
> In fact, the duplicate ID also caused us trouble. Maybe you can refer to
> our colleagues' patches and add a new ID before the old ID.
>
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linux-mtd/patch/1587631123-25474-2-git-send-email-masonccyang@mxic.com.tw/
>

No, that patch is wrong because mx66l51235l will no longer be
detected. I see that mx66l51235l also supports SECT_4K, as
mx25l51245g does. Do you know why Mason added a new flash ID?
Was it just to get the new flash name? I'll send a patch right
now to correct this.

Cheers,
ta