Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Add post_sfdp fixups for Quad Input Page Program

Cheng Ming Lin
2025-02-10T03:31:13Z

Hi Tudor,

Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@linaro.org> 於 2025年2月7日 週五 下午4:37寫道：
>
> Hi, Cheng,
>
> On 2/7/25 8:18 AM, Cheng Ming Lin wrote:
> > Although certain Macronix NOR flash support the Quad Input Page Program
> > feature, the corresponding information in the 4-byte Address Instruction
> > Table of these flash is not properly filled. As a result, this feature
> > cannot be enabled as expected.
>
> You need to prove that all the flashes that you touch need this fixup,
> i.e. dump their SFDP and show where's the wrong bit in the SFDP table.

Okay, I will dump the SFDP for each of them and point out the
specific errors in the SFDP tables.

>
> Identifying wrong bit in the SFDP tables would be easy to spot if we had
> a SFDP decoder. Something that we all agree that'd be a good thing to
> have, but nobody can allocate time to do it. Pratyush I remember has
> started a draft. Are you interested in introducing a SFDP decoder in
> mtd-utils?
>
> Also, if you touch all these flashes, will you please update them and
> get rid of the stray flash info fields? I'm thinking of name, size, and
> no_sfdp_flags.

No problem. Would removing these stray flash info fields from the
Macronix flash warrant a separate patch series, or should it be included
with the current changes?

>
> Cheers,
> ta

Thanks,
Cheng Ming Lin