[U-Boot] [PATCH] sf: Fix s25fs512s erase size and remove SECT_4K flag

Suresh Gupta suresh.gupta at nxp.com
Fri Apr 28 05:26:42 UTC 2017



> -----Original Message-----
> From: York Sun [mailto:york.sun at nxp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 10:18 PM
> To: Suresh Gupta <suresh.gupta at nxp.com>; Jagan Teki
> <jagannadh.teki at gmail.com>
> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de; Jagan Teki <jagan at openedev.com>; Yao Yuan
> <yao.yuan at nxp.com>
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] sf: Fix s25fs512s erase size and remove SECT_4K
> flag
> 
> On 04/26/2017 10:17 PM, Suresh Gupta wrote:
> >
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >>>
> >> Suresh,
> >>
> >> Did you test your patch after removing CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR? Why
> >> doesn't this flash support BAR commands? How did it work before broken?
> >>
> >
> > York, the flash s25fs512s support 32 bit address to handle >16M memory
> access.
> > With and without CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR the u-boot only access up to 16M
> > of flash memory for this particular flash which is installed on our boards
> (LS1012ARDB, LS1046ARDB, LS1088ARDB, LS2088ARDB).
> > So, anyhow we need to remove this CONFIG_SPI_FLASH_BAR from our boards
> configs.
> >
> > For accessing >16M of flash memory (to support 32 bit address) I
> > already start discussion [2] with Jagan. Hopefully We have a solution for that
> in near future.
> > [2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/676152/
> >
> 
> How did it (>16MB) work before?
> 
> York

According to me for this s25fs512s  particular flash,  >16M should not work in open source code. 
If you have any commit id where it works, let me know.
I will try at my end and update you 



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