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From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Cc: tudor.ambarus@microchip.com, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com,
	richard@nod.at, vigneshr@ti.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Add support for BoHong bh25q128as
Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 11:35:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ef20e03c43d2eacff7133f74a118ea43@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <796a15bd-66d9-b1a5-2258-b692f23364fe@david-bauer.net>

Hi David,

Am 2021-05-10 11:28, schrieb David Bauer:
> On 5/10/21 10:00 AM, Michael Walle wrote
> 
> [...]
> 
>>> +static const struct flash_info bohong_parts[] = {
>>> +    /* BoHong Microelectronics */
>>> +    { "bh25q128as", INFO(0x684018, 0, 64 * 1024, 256,
>> 
>> I couldn't find "BoHong" in JEP106BC. 0x68 (without continuation 
>> codes)
>> is "Convex Computer". So this is wrong. OTOH I'm not sure, how many
>> SPI flashes "convex computer" have, if any ;) This company was brought
>> by HP in the end.
>> 
>> In any case, this patch depends on how we handle continuation codes or
>> if we can handle them at all. Or if this flash just lie about its
>> manufacturer id and don't and CC.
> 
> First of all, BoHong and Boya microelectronics seems to be the same
> company, as their datasheets seem to copy each other. There's not much
> information about either of both, so I'd say that's a fair assumption.
> 
> Regarding the continuation codes, Boya is listed in bank nine, however
> in this case I should currently read an all 0x7f ID shouldn't I?

I'd guess so, yes.

> The datasheet also only specifies 3 bytes as a return value for
> register 0x9fh :(

Yeah. So, this flash falls into the same category "simply hijacks
a manuf id" as all the other flashes.

We still need to come up with a solution for this problem.

-michael

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-10  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-09 14:47 [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: Add support for BoHong bh25q128as David Bauer
2021-05-10  8:00 ` Michael Walle
2021-05-10  9:28   ` David Bauer
2021-05-10  9:35     ` Michael Walle [this message]
2021-05-10 10:27       ` David Bauer
2021-05-10 10:56         ` Michael Walle
2021-05-10 11:04           ` David Bauer
2021-05-10 11:22             ` Michael Walle
2021-05-18 19:39               ` David Bauer
2021-06-28  5:48                 ` Tudor.Ambarus
2021-07-02 14:03                   ` Tudor.Ambarus
2021-07-03 15:58                     ` George Brooke
2021-07-03 16:20                       ` Michael Walle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-02-17 12:20 Christian Marangi
2024-02-19  8:35 ` Michael Walle
2024-02-19 21:56   ` Christian Marangi

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