Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Nov 2016 13:00:00 +0200 | From | Mika Westerberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller |
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On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 05:58:55PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote: > This is fourth version of the series. Previous versions can be found: > > v3: https://lwn.net/Articles/697231/ > v2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068277.html > v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/269 > > This patch series adds support for the Intel SPI serial flash controller > found on many recent Intel CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. This > driver makes it possible to access the BIOS and other platform data which > is stored on the SPI serial flash. It is also possible to upgrade the BIOS > using this driver if it has not been protected by special hardware bits. > > The patch [1/3] includes documentation how to upgrade BIOS on MinnowBoard > MAX. > > Since poking the SPI serial flash can brick the machine, this driver can > only be enabled when CONFIG_EXPERT=y and even then it will remain read-only > unless instructed othwerwise by module parameter. > > This missed v4.8 and v4.9 so it would be really nice to get it finally > included in v4.10.
Adding the new MTD and SPI-NOR maintainers. Any change getting this merged for v4.10?
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