[PATCH] mtd: spinand: add support for HeYangTek HYF1GQ4UDACAE

From: Aleksei Sviridkin

Date: Tue Jun 16 2026 - 09:29:07 EST


The HeYangTek HYF1GQ4UDACAE is a 1 Gbit (128 MiB) SLC SPI-NAND with
2048 + 64 byte pages and on-die 4-bit / 512-byte ECC; its JEDEC
manufacturer ID is 0xc9. The die is GD5F1GQ4-compatible, so the OOB
layout is taken from the in-tree gd5fxgq4xa. The die exposes only a
coarse 2-bit ECC status with no fine-grained bitflip-count register, so
the status is decoded into a representative number of corrected bitflips.

It is found, among others, on some Keenetic KN-3411 (Buddy 6) units.

Datasheet:
https://www.heyangtek.cn/previewfile.jsp?file=ABUIABA9GAAgwsvRnwYo-eDpsgc

Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@xxxxxx>
---
This revives Maxim Anisimov's 2024 submission [1], which stalled on the
review feedback. Changes since then:

- The OOB layout no longer leaves undefined bytes: it is taken verbatim
from the in-tree gd5fxgq4xa, which the die is compatible with (BBM in
byte 0, ECC parity in bytes 8..15 of each 16-byte section, the rest
exposed as free).
- The ECC status decoding is documented and uses '/' instead of a
shift. The die exposes only the coarse 2-bit status with no register
for the exact bitflip count, so the below-threshold code reports
strength/2 and the refresh-recommended code reports the full strength.
- The datasheet link is added to the commit message.

Tested on a Keenetic KN-3411 (Buddy 6): the chip is detected and a UBIFS
rootfs mounts and runs on it. nandbiterrs is not applicable here -- this
is an on-die-ECC part with NOP=1, so the in-place raw page reprogram that
nandbiterrs relies on corrupts the page independently of this driver.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mtd/20240624061246.5292-1-maxim.anisimov.ua@xxxxxxxxx/

drivers/mtd/nand/spi/Makefile | 2 +-
drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c | 1 +
drivers/mtd/nand/spi/heyangtek.c | 132 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/mtd/spinand.h | 1 +
4 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/nand/spi/heyangtek.c

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/Makefile b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/Makefile
index a47bd22cd..b5ccb4486 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
spinand-objs := core.o otp.o
-spinand-objs += alliancememory.o ato.o dosilicon.o esmt.o fmsh.o foresee.o gigadevice.o
+spinand-objs += alliancememory.o ato.o dosilicon.o esmt.o fmsh.o foresee.o gigadevice.o heyangtek.o
spinand-objs += macronix.o micron.o paragon.o skyhigh.o toshiba.o winbond.o xtx.o
obj-$(CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NAND) += spinand.o
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c
index 0b076790b..0cdd4a62e 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/core.c
@@ -1336,6 +1336,7 @@ static const struct spinand_manufacturer *spinand_manufacturers[] = {
&fmsh_spinand_manufacturer,
&foresee_spinand_manufacturer,
&gigadevice_spinand_manufacturer,
+ &heyangtek_spinand_manufacturer,
&macronix_spinand_manufacturer,
&micron_spinand_manufacturer,
&paragon_spinand_manufacturer,
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/heyangtek.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/heyangtek.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7fc50fd3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/spi/heyangtek.c
@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+/*
+ * Authors:
+ * Andrey Zolotarev <andrey.zolotarev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> - the main driver logic
+ * Aleksei Sviridkin <f@xxxxxx> - adaptation to the mainline Linux kernel
+ *
+ * Based on:
+ * https://github.com/keenetic/kernel-49/commit/bacade569fb12bc0ad31ba09bca9b890118fbca7
+ */
+
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/mtd/spinand.h>
+
+#define SPINAND_MFR_HEYANGTEK 0xc9
+
+#define HYF1GQ4_STATUS_ECC_LIMIT_BITFLIPS (3 << 4)
+
+static SPINAND_OP_VARIANTS(read_cache_variants,
+ SPINAND_PAGE_READ_FROM_CACHE_1S_4S_4S_OP(0, 1, NULL, 0, 0),
+ SPINAND_PAGE_READ_FROM_CACHE_1S_1S_4S_OP(0, 1, NULL, 0, 0),
+ SPINAND_PAGE_READ_FROM_CACHE_1S_2S_2S_OP(0, 1, NULL, 0, 0),
+ SPINAND_PAGE_READ_FROM_CACHE_1S_1S_2S_OP(0, 1, NULL, 0, 0),
+ SPINAND_PAGE_READ_FROM_CACHE_FAST_1S_1S_1S_OP(0, 1, NULL, 0, 0),
+ SPINAND_PAGE_READ_FROM_CACHE_1S_1S_1S_OP(0, 1, NULL, 0, 0));
+
+static SPINAND_OP_VARIANTS(write_cache_variants,
+ SPINAND_PROG_LOAD_1S_1S_4S_OP(true, 0, NULL, 0),
+ SPINAND_PROG_LOAD_1S_1S_1S_OP(true, 0, NULL, 0));
+
+static SPINAND_OP_VARIANTS(update_cache_variants,
+ SPINAND_PROG_LOAD_1S_1S_4S_OP(false, 0, NULL, 0),
+ SPINAND_PROG_LOAD_1S_1S_1S_OP(false, 0, NULL, 0));
+
+/*
+ * HYF1GQ4UDACAE is a GD5F1GQ4-compatible die, so the OOB layout is taken
+ * from gd5fxgq4xa: the on-die ECC parity occupies bytes 8..15 of each
+ * 16-byte section, the bad block marker sits in byte 0 and the remaining
+ * bytes are exposed as free.
+ */
+static int hyf1gq4_ooblayout_ecc(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
+ struct mtd_oob_region *region)
+{
+ if (section > 3)
+ return -ERANGE;
+
+ region->offset = (16 * section) + 8;
+ region->length = 8;
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int hyf1gq4_ooblayout_free(struct mtd_info *mtd, int section,
+ struct mtd_oob_region *region)
+{
+ if (section > 3)
+ return -ERANGE;
+
+ if (section) {
+ region->offset = 16 * section;
+ region->length = 8;
+ } else {
+ /* section 0 has one byte reserved for the bad block marker */
+ region->offset = 1;
+ region->length = 7;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct mtd_ooblayout_ops hyf1gq4_ooblayout = {
+ .ecc = hyf1gq4_ooblayout_ecc,
+ .free = hyf1gq4_ooblayout_free,
+};
+
+static int hyf1gq4_ecc_get_status(struct spinand_device *spinand, u8 status)
+{
+ struct nand_device *nand = spinand_to_nand(spinand);
+
+ switch (status & STATUS_ECC_MASK) {
+ case STATUS_ECC_NO_BITFLIPS:
+ return 0;
+
+ case STATUS_ECC_UNCOR_ERROR:
+ return -EBADMSG;
+
+ case STATUS_ECC_HAS_BITFLIPS:
+ /*
+ * The die exposes only a coarse 2-bit ECC status and has no
+ * register for the exact bitflip count. This code means
+ * "corrected, below the refresh threshold", so report half of
+ * the ECC strength as a representative value.
+ */
+ return nanddev_get_ecc_conf(nand)->strength / 2;
+
+ case HYF1GQ4_STATUS_ECC_LIMIT_BITFLIPS:
+ /*
+ * "Corrected, refresh recommended": report the full ECC
+ * strength so the upper layers relocate the data.
+ */
+ return nanddev_get_ecc_conf(nand)->strength;
+
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
+
+static const struct spinand_info heyangtek_spinand_table[] = {
+ SPINAND_INFO("HYF1GQ4UDACAE",
+ SPINAND_ID(SPINAND_READID_METHOD_OPCODE_ADDR, 0x21),
+ NAND_MEMORG(1, 2048, 64, 64, 1024, 20, 1, 1, 1),
+ NAND_ECCREQ(4, 512),
+ SPINAND_INFO_OP_VARIANTS(&read_cache_variants,
+ &write_cache_variants,
+ &update_cache_variants),
+ SPINAND_HAS_QE_BIT,
+ SPINAND_ECCINFO(&hyf1gq4_ooblayout,
+ hyf1gq4_ecc_get_status)),
+};
+
+static const struct spinand_manufacturer_ops heyangtek_spinand_manuf_ops = {
+};
+
+const struct spinand_manufacturer heyangtek_spinand_manufacturer = {
+ .id = SPINAND_MFR_HEYANGTEK,
+ .name = "HeYangTek",
+ .chips = heyangtek_spinand_table,
+ .nchips = ARRAY_SIZE(heyangtek_spinand_table),
+ .ops = &heyangtek_spinand_manuf_ops,
+};
diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/spinand.h b/include/linux/mtd/spinand.h
index 782984ba3..48357e6ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/mtd/spinand.h
+++ b/include/linux/mtd/spinand.h
@@ -437,6 +437,7 @@ extern const struct spinand_manufacturer esmt_c8_spinand_manufacturer;
extern const struct spinand_manufacturer fmsh_spinand_manufacturer;
extern const struct spinand_manufacturer foresee_spinand_manufacturer;
extern const struct spinand_manufacturer gigadevice_spinand_manufacturer;
+extern const struct spinand_manufacturer heyangtek_spinand_manufacturer;
extern const struct spinand_manufacturer macronix_spinand_manufacturer;
extern const struct spinand_manufacturer micron_spinand_manufacturer;
extern const struct spinand_manufacturer paragon_spinand_manufacturer;
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