[U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] Disable hybrid mode for SPANSION S25FS-S family

[Jagan Teki]

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Rajat Srivastava
<rajat.srivastava at nxp.com> wrote:
> The S25FS-S family physical sectors may be configured as a hybrid
> combination of eight 4-kB parameter sectors at the top or bottom
> of the address space with all but one of the remaining sectors
> being uniform size. The default status of the flash is the hybrid
> architecture.
>
> Since the parameter sectors and the uniform sectors have different
> erase commands, it is a problem to implement erase functionality for
> hybrid mode in current U-boot code. Also, enabling hybrid mode doesn't
> provide any significant benefit.

I think I've asked this question before, keeping the state of the
flash remains same. Can't erase parameter and uniform sectors
individually during operations like
- parameter sectors with erase commands (20h or 21h)
- uniform sectors with erase commands (D8h or DCh)

thanks!
-- 
Jagan Teki
Free Software Engineer | www.openedev.com
U-Boot, Linux | Upstream Maintainer
Hyderabad, India.