Rockchip RK3328 4-byte addressing problem in SPI

[Michael Walle]

>>>> So leaving 4-byte switched by UBoot SPI chip made it unusable to
>>>> RockChip Bootrom. I found this by dumping Bootrom and decompiling it.
>>
>> Sync with engineer working on these area, and get below:
>>
>> Yes, this "4-byte addressing problem in SPI" issue is in SoCs including
>> rk3328, this only happen
>
> Can we have an explicit list of SoCs affected by this errata please?

I'm not sure this is a problem of the SoC (bootrom). The issue is
either board design or flash usage pattern.

If you enable 4byte mode and don't have a hardware reset pin (or
don't assert it during board reset) you are likely in trouble.

Have a look at JESD216D. The 16th DWORD lists 6 different software
reset methods, there is even a "no software reset instruction is
supported". That's also true for the "exit 4byte mode": there is
no common way to exit it.

You could try to read the SFDP tables. But that will only work
for flash devices with (valid) SFDP.

So in the general case, you are probably f** when you enable the
4 byte mode, boot from that flash and don't have a reset. As
mentioned here, you should instead use the 4byte opcodes where
possible.

-michael