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From: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
Cc: OpenBMC Maillist <openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Cyril Bur <cyril.bur@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux dev-4.7] mtd: spi-nor: add SECT_4K to mx25l25635e
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:41:01 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACPK8Xc74MxOwNG83W-TFvJcMATAUV=ENmT7At_oZ7MWNxGrig@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2ad5ccb-90b0-b5fa-1d70-f0bd6757ee1e@kaod.org>

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
> On 10/21/2016 10:44 AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
>> The current setting is to erase blocks (64KB) but the chip supports
>> sector (4KB) erase and it is currently a problem to erase "partitions"
>> which are smaller than the block size (64KB), the GUARD partition for
>> instance.
>
> There are few other macronixs that would need a similar change but
> this has an impact on existing jffs2 filesystems on the flash. I am
> not sure we will be able to merge this change in mainline.

We reverted this one in [1] as it was breaking JFFS2 [2] as you predicted.

[1] https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/892/
[2] https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/issues/701

Cheers,

Joel

      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-21  8:44 [PATCH linux dev-4.7] mtd: spi-nor: add SECT_4K to mx25l25635e Cédric Le Goater
2016-10-21  9:52 ` Cédric Le Goater
2016-10-25 12:11   ` Joel Stanley [this message]

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