Re: [PATCH] mtd: spi-nor: gigadevice: Add support for GigaDevice GD25B512

From: Michael Walle

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 04:04:10 EST


Hi Matthew,

On Sun Nov 8, 2026 at 3:20 AM CET, Matthew Parker wrote:
> Add support for the GigaDevice GD25B512 512Mbit (64 MiB) SPI NOR flash.
>
> The chip exposes valid JESD216B SFDP tables including 4-byte address
> instruction tables, from which geometry and opcodes are discovered.
> Stateless 4-byte opcodes and status register locking are enabled. Read,
> write, and erase functionality across the full memory array have been
> tested on hardware.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.1+
> Co-developed-by: Adam Calabrigo <adamc@xxxxxxxxxx>

Co-developed-by for just adding an id?

Please note that we have some requirements for new flashes, see [1].
Same for the your other patch.

-michael

[1] https://docs.kernel.org/driver-api/mtd/spi-nor.html

> Signed-off-by: Adam Calabrigo <adamc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Parker <mparker@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/spi-nor/gigadevice.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/gigadevice.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/gigadevice.c
> index 6a2e6ebda148..de96cefde516 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/gigadevice.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/gigadevice.c
> @@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ static const struct flash_info gigadevice_nor_parts[] = {
> .id = SNOR_ID(0xc8, 0x40, 0x19),
> .name = "gd25q256",
> .flags = SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK | SPI_NOR_HAS_TB | SPI_NOR_TB_SR_BIT6,
> + }, {
> + .id = SNOR_ID(0xc8, 0x47, 0x1a),
> + .flags = SPI_NOR_HAS_LOCK,
> + .fixup_flags = SPI_NOR_4B_OPCODES,
> }, {
> .id = SNOR_ID(0xc8, 0x60, 0x16),
> .name = "gd25lq32",

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