Re: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: micron-st: sync flags of mt25ql02g and mt25qu02g with other mt25q

From: Michael Walle
Date: Wed Jul 28 2021 - 06:00:13 EST


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