[U-Boot] Between 2015.10 and 2016.01, SPI flash changed erase size, and saveenv stopped working

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2016-05-30 05:21:28, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
> 
> On 29.05.2016 22:40, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >On board with Altera Cyclone 5:
> >
> >=> version
> >
> >U-Boot 2016.01-05658-g81689ec (May 29 2016 - 22:25:45 +0200)
> >arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 4.8.2
> >GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
> >Saving Environment to SPI Flash...
> >spi_flash_std_probe: slave=0bf367d0, cs=0
> >SF: Detected N25Q512 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 64 KiB,
> >total 64 MiB
> >offset 0x40000 is protected and cannot be erased
> >
> >...
> >
> >=> version
> >
> >U-Boot 2015.10-04078-g3b6d086 (May 29 2016 - 22:33:36 +0200)
> >arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc (GCC) 4.8.2
> >GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.24
> >SF: Detected N25Q512 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total
> >64 MiB
> >
> >
> >Does anyone else see the problem? Any ideas?

Commit c3c016cf75360c2a0d0a065b64b438aaf7720576 is a part of the problem:

offset 0x40000 is protected and cannot be erased
=> sf help
No SPI flash selected. Please run `sf probe'
=> sf probe
...
SF: Detected N25Q512 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total
64 MiB
cadence_spi_set_speed: speed=1000000
=> sf protect unlock 0x40000 0x20000
cadence_spi_xfer: len=1 [bytes]
cadence_spi_xfer: len=1 [bytes]
=> saveenv
Saving Environment to SPI Flash...

Best regards,
									Pavel
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