Re: [PATCH v1 0/6] mtd: spi-nor: spring cleaning

From: Tudor Ambarus
Date: Tue Apr 16 2024 - 00:57:47 EST




On 4/12/24 14:43, Michael Walle wrote:
> It's time for some spring cleaning. Remove the oddball xilinx
> flashes with non-power-of-2 page sizes.
> Remove the .setup() callback, only the default callback is ever
> used and it is unlikely there is need for a custom setup.
>
> Finally, the last patch is a proposal how to deprecate flashes,
> which are just detected by their id. We cannot really find out if
> there are boards out there which are using a particular flash. Thus,
> as a first step, we can print a warning during kernel startup. As a
> second step we might introduce a kernel config option to actually
> disable the flashes which has the deprecated flag.


How many FRAMs/MRAMs are in SPI NOR? Can you list them please? I don't
remember anyone bringing topics about everspin and the cypress thingy
was a mistake. I'd like to get an idea whether it's fine to remove the
FRAM/MRAM from SPI NOR without doing these preparation steps and waiting
for another year.