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From: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] spi: Add Renesas R-Car Gen3 RPC-IF SPI
 controller driver
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2019 10:26:46 +0100
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 08:15:25 +0100
Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> > So far as I know that HF is provided by Cypress only and
> >> > any mass production product use the component which is provided by only
> >> > one provider
> >> > will be a big risk.
> >> >
> >> > Compare to HF, there are more provider of SPI/Octa could support the
> >> > mass production product
> >> > as their second provider.
> >> >
> >> > In addition, from the technical points of view, mx25uw51245g is more
> >> > powerful than HF and
> >> > good for complicate user application, i.e., OTA and so on.  
> >>
> >> Did you consider protocol overhead too ? I don't think you can compare
> >> them just by raw numbers of pins and bus frequency.
> >>
> >> Note that over-the-air update (if that's what you mean by OTA) is
> >> completely separate from the underlying storage device.  
> > 
> > It's key feature of mx25uw51245g supports Read-while-Write capability
> > that allows read access from one memory bank while writing to another
> > memory bank.  
> 
> Note that this sales pitch is rather off-topic.
> 

Fully agree with Marek on that point. The discussion is about
supporting both HF and SPI-MEM modes (or, at least have a plan to
support HF at some point) not figuring out which option is better.