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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add support to non-uniform SFDP SPI NOR flash memories
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Hi Tudor,

Le 08/06/2018 à 15:48, Tudor Ambarus a écrit :
> The commit message became wall-of-text, my feeling is that I heavily
> reworked the code so I changed the author. If someone thinks differently,
> please say and I'll change back to the initial authorship. What I've done:

It's obvious that you're the author of the patch so I'm totally fine with
this change :)

Best regards,

Cyrille

>
> - minimize the amount of erase() calls by using the best sequence of erase
> type commands depending on alignment.
>
> - build the list of best fitted erase commands to be executed once we
> validate that the erase can be performed.
>
> - add improvements on how the erase map is handled. The regions are
> consecutive in the address space, walk through the regions incrementally.
>
> - speed up finding the best erase type command. Order erase types by
> size, iterate them from the biggest to the smallest and stop when best
> fitted command is found.
>
> - determine at init if there are erase types that can erase the entire
> memory
>
> - fix the erase size in overlaid regions. S25FS512S states that 'if a sector
> erase command is applied to a 256KB range that is overlaid by 4KB secors,
> the overlaid 4kB sectors are not affected by the erase'
>
> Backward compatibility test done on MX25L25673G.
>
> Changes since RFC PATCH:
> - build a list of erase commands to be executed once we validate
> that the erase can be performed
> - fix walking through the address space in overlaid regions
> - drop wall-of-text description commit message, change author
>
>
> Tudor Ambarus (1):
> mtd: spi-nor: add support to non-uniform SFDP SPI NOR flash memories
>
> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c | 357 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> include/linux/mtd/spi-nor.h | 108 +++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 451 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>

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