[RFH] SPI and SPI-NOR patch help

[Conor Dooley]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 10:46:07AM -0600, Tom Rini wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> To be blunt, U-Boot needs help with reviewing and maintaining the SPI
> and SPI-NOR subsystems. We haven't had someone with time to actively
> work in this area for some time. I'm going through the outstanding
> changes now, but it also seems a common problem is that with respect to
> device IDs, most of the new ones also aren't in the upstream Linux
> Kernel. Is there some better and generic solution we're missing so that
> we don't have large and often growing device ID tables? I'd rather not
> make that problem worse, so I've rejected two of those types of updates
> today and I'm just setting aside a large number of others.

Dunno if your timing was cursed on sending this, but Tudor submitted his
resignation from spi-nor maintainership in the kernel about 10 mins
after.
I think Michael Walle might be responsible for what you're talking about
here, with his 773bbe1044973 ("mtd: spi-nor: add generic flash driver"),
but idk jack about spi-nor stuff.

Cheers,
Conor.
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