Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] mtd: devices: add support for microchip 48l640 EERAM

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Heiko,

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:26 AM Heiko Schocher <hs@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The Microchip 48l640 is a 8KByte EERAM connected via SPI.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> I tried to use drivers/mtd/devices/mchp23k256.c but this
> driver does not use any status register and there seems
> slight differences in registers (no write enable register
> for example), so I decided to make a new driver.
>
> This driver sets the continuous mode bit in Status register,
> which states you can write continuous ... but after writting
> 32 bytes the chip goes into an undefined state, so driver now
> writes data in 32 byte chunks.
>
> I also tried to use regmap, but it leads in a lot of more code,
> and as this chip has only spi interface it makes no sense, or?
>
> Tested  this driver on board imx8mp-phyboard-pollux-rdk
> board, which is already in mainline.
>
> Made some tbot tests, which write at random offset random
> length bytes with dd and and random content. Reread the data
> after a reboot and compare with the written data. Works fine.

Works for me too on an imx7d based board, thanks:

Tested-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxx>