Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: mt25qu: Ignore 6th ID byte

From: Michael Walle
Date: Mon Nov 22 2021 - 10:06:01 EST


Hi,

Am 2021-11-22 08:06, schrieb Alexander Sverdlin:
On 19/11/2021 22:19, Michael Walle wrote:
Ignore 6th ID byte, secure version of mt25qu256a has 0x73 as 6th byte.

What is the secure version? What is the difference? Do you have some
links to datasheets for both?

For instance:
https://www.micron.com/products/nor-flash/serial-nor-flash/part-catalog/mt25qu256aba1ew7-0sit
https://media-www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents/products/data-sheet/nor-flash/serial-nor/mt25q/die-rev-a/mt25q_qljs_u_256_aba_0.pdf?rev=594079234c1b496496b062c21ce162d6

https://www.micron.com/products/nor-flash/serial-nor-flash/part-catalog/mt25qu256aba8e12-1sit
https://media-www.micron.com/-/media/client/global/documents/products/data-sheet/nor-flash/serial-nor/mt25q/die-rev-a/mt25q_qljs_u_256_aba_0.pdf?rev=594079234c1b496496b062c21ce162d6

But the differences are in "MT25Q Security Addendum":
"The additional protection features available on the secure MT25Q
device include a
lock status register bit, top/bottom block address protection lock, volatile
configuration lock register at power up, protection management register lock,
and a nonvolatile configuration lock register."
This is only available under NDA from Micron.

So I take a wild guess here. There are lock bits (either in OTP or
maybe until the next power cycle), to lock the corresponding
top/bottom, block protection bits, right?

However as long as one doesn't use these security features, it appears
compatible with
non-secure version. That's why just ignoring the non-standard
configuration allows
to support it.

But if we ever support it, then we have to distiguish them. Thus,
I was asking.

Also please provide the SFDP data for this flash, see [1].

sfdp:
53464450060101ff00060110300000ff84000102800000ffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffe520fbffffffff0f29eb276b
273b27bbffffffffffff27bbffff29eb0c2010d80f520000244a99008b8e
03d4ac0127387a757a75fbbdd55c4a0f82ff81bd3d36ffffffffffffffff
ffffffffffffffffffe7ffff21dcffff

md5sum:
5ea738216f68c9f98987bb3725699a32

jedec_id:
20bb191044

partname:
mt25qu256a

manufacturer:
st

(But last 3 do not make sense to me, as they come from the table I modify,
not from the chip itself). Further, I don't have 512Mbit chip to provide
SFDP for it.

Thanks, so that's the SFDP data for the mt25qu256aba8e12-1sit part. and the
jedec id is 20bb19104473, correct?

You don't have the non-security part by chance?

Mh, I'm undecided whether we should just duplicate the entry or if we
should ignore the last byte ("Device configuration information", where 00h
is standard). The commit which introduced the flash was 7f412111e276b.
Vingesh?

Can you elaborate on the 0x73? Is that a bitmask? If it was an enumeration,
I'd assumed it would be 01h (or some smaller value).

-michael