[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/9] sf: Update flash params for supported read commands and sector size

Bin Meng bmeng.cn at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 14:50:20 CET 2015


Hi Jagan,

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jagan,
>
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 2:52 PM, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 12 January 2015 at 09:12, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 17 December 2014 at 13:32, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 15 December 2014 at 19:21, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hi Bin,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 11 December 2014 at 08:34, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Jagan,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Jagan Teki <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Hi Bin,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 10 December 2014 at 18:21, Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> This series update SPI flash supported read commands per datasheet
>>>>>>>>>>>> in the flash params table, and change flash sector size to 4KiB as
>>>>>>>>>>>> long as flash supports sector erase (20h) command, to ensure
>>>>>>>>>>>> 'sf erase offset +len' work on 4KiB boundary instead of 64KiB when
>>>>>>>>>>>> given SECT_4K.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Changes in v3:
>>>>>>>>>>>> - Rebase with Jagan's patch series @ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/419154/
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Bin Meng (9):
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update SST flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update Atmel flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update EON flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update GigaDevice flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update Macronix flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update Spansion flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update Micron flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Update Winbond flash params
>>>>>>>>>>>>   sf: Give proper spacing between flash table params
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the updates - have you verified these changes?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I verified some, but not all of these flash parts. The update is based
>>>>>>>>>> on flash datasheet, so if something is broken, eg before this series
>>>>>>>>>> the flash advertises only READ_NORM and after my series it is changed
>>>>>>>>>> to READ_FULL, and let's say QUAD_IO_FAST is not working, it is very
>>>>>>>>>> likely that the SPI controller driver has some bugs when supporting
>>>>>>>>>> QUAD_IO_FAST.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Since these updates were tested before, I will skip these for this PR.
>>>>>>>>> Will test all the rest (except these) and send the PR soon.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Let me know your inputs?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am fine, as long as this PR will not contains other commits which
>>>>>>>> modify the same sf_params.c to introduce more flash support. We can
>>>>>>>> test these updates and if everything looks fine, apply these first and
>>>>>>>> ask other commits to rebase on this series to introduce more flash
>>>>>>>> support.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you have any additional comments about this patch series besides
>>>>>>> the S25FL128S_64K and S25FL256S_64K sector size? If not, I can send
>>>>>>> the v4.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm thinking about the other flashes too,  since these params were taken from
>>>>>> previous working and Linux mtd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You mean 'thinking about' or 'testing'? I should say previously they
>>>>> might not be 100% working as per datasheet some flash params currently
>>>>> are apparently wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Yes - about testing.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ping? What about your test results about this patch series?
>>
>> Some were pending - Will comment, pls- wait.
>>
>> thanks!
>> --
>
> I still don't see any additional comments. Looking at the history this
> patch series has been sitting there for months. Would you please let
> me know what you think about this series?
>

Could you respond this? I wonder if this series could be merged in
before MW is closed.

Regards,
Bin


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