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From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
Cc: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>,
	Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@ti.com>,
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: micron-st: sync flags of mt25ql02g and mt25qu02g with other mt25q
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:00:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cebfb4138908d085791c5c2fddca939d@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42380415413178b18e940ae80298c22c51275b95.camel@ew.tq-group.com>

Am 2021-07-27 12:45, schrieb Matthias Schiffer:
> On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 09:09 +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
[..]
>> > --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/micron-st.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/micron-st.c
>> > @@ -181,11 +181,11 @@ static const struct flash_info st_parts[] = {
>> >  			      SECT_4K | USE_FSR | SPI_NOR_QUAD_READ |
>> >  			      NO_CHIP_ERASE) },
>> >  	{ "mt25ql02g",   INFO(0x20ba22, 0, 64 * 1024, 4096,
>> > -			      SECT_4K | USE_FSR | SPI_NOR_QUAD_READ |
>> > -			      NO_CHIP_ERASE) },
>> 
>> This bothers me. I'm not sure how this will work. I see that
>> chip erase is command 0xc7, but both the new and the old flash
>> just supports 0xc3 (DIE ERASE). Did you test these changes?
> 
> Thanks for catching this. I overlooked that the 1G and 2G variants
> don't support the same erase commands as the smaller versions after
> all... It is possible that I only tested this with partitioned MTD, so
> I didn't hit the whole-chip erase case.
> 
> Which command should I use to test the chip erase? Will a `flash_erase
> /dev/mtdX 0 0` trigger the correct operation?

I guess so. Looking at
http://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git/blob/HEAD:/misc-utils/flash_erase.c#l226

It seems you should see a different output for either erasing individual
sectors or the whole chip (as long as the kernel doesn't the invidual
block erase itself).

-michael

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From: Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
To: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
Cc: Tudor Ambarus <tudor.ambarus@microchip.com>,
	Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@ti.com>,
	Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@ti.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: micron-st: sync flags of mt25ql02g and mt25qu02g with other mt25q
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:00:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cebfb4138908d085791c5c2fddca939d@walle.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42380415413178b18e940ae80298c22c51275b95.camel@ew.tq-group.com>

Am 2021-07-27 12:45, schrieb Matthias Schiffer:
> On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 09:09 +0200, Michael Walle wrote:
[..]
>> > --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/micron-st.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/micron-st.c
>> > @@ -181,11 +181,11 @@ static const struct flash_info st_parts[] = {
>> >  			      SECT_4K | USE_FSR | SPI_NOR_QUAD_READ |
>> >  			      NO_CHIP_ERASE) },
>> >  	{ "mt25ql02g",   INFO(0x20ba22, 0, 64 * 1024, 4096,
>> > -			      SECT_4K | USE_FSR | SPI_NOR_QUAD_READ |
>> > -			      NO_CHIP_ERASE) },
>> 
>> This bothers me. I'm not sure how this will work. I see that
>> chip erase is command 0xc7, but both the new and the old flash
>> just supports 0xc3 (DIE ERASE). Did you test these changes?
> 
> Thanks for catching this. I overlooked that the 1G and 2G variants
> don't support the same erase commands as the smaller versions after
> all... It is possible that I only tested this with partitioned MTD, so
> I didn't hit the whole-chip erase case.
> 
> Which command should I use to test the chip erase? Will a `flash_erase
> /dev/mtdX 0 0` trigger the correct operation?

I guess so. Looking at
http://git.infradead.org/mtd-utils.git/blob/HEAD:/misc-utils/flash_erase.c#l226

It seems you should see a different output for either erasing individual
sectors or the whole chip (as long as the kernel doesn't the invidual
block erase itself).

-michael

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-28 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-23 11:27 [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: micron-st: sync flags of mt25ql02g and mt25qu02g with other mt25q Matthias Schiffer
2021-07-23 11:27 ` Matthias Schiffer
2021-07-23 11:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] mtd: spi-nor: micron-st: add support for mt25ql01g and mt25qu01g Matthias Schiffer
2021-07-23 11:27   ` Matthias Schiffer
2021-07-27  7:17   ` Michael Walle
2021-07-27  7:17     ` Michael Walle
2021-07-27  7:09 ` [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: micron-st: sync flags of mt25ql02g and mt25qu02g with other mt25q Michael Walle
2021-07-27  7:09   ` Michael Walle
2021-07-27 10:45   ` Matthias Schiffer
2021-07-27 10:45     ` Matthias Schiffer
2021-07-28 10:00     ` Michael Walle [this message]
2021-07-28 10:00       ` Michael Walle
2021-10-06 12:32   ` (EXT) " Matthias Schiffer
2021-10-06 12:32     ` Matthias Schiffer
2021-10-07  7:08     ` Michael Walle
2021-10-07  7:08       ` Michael Walle
2021-10-07  7:18       ` (EXT) " Matthias Schiffer
2021-10-07  7:18         ` Matthias Schiffer
2021-10-07  7:37         ` Michael Walle
2021-10-07  7:37           ` Michael Walle

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