Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 1/2] mtd: m25p80: Reworkprobing/JEDEC code

[Mike Frysinger]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 07:20, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> You can't easily change OF. It's like "let's change ACPI tables
> or BIOS in these PCs". Doable, but involves things like reflashing.
> And we usually have to support old BIOSes as well.
>
> OTOH, I see (git grep m25p arch/powerpc/boot/dts/) that in
> mainline kernel only MPC8569 board has a correct m25p
> node, and it is STMicro variant (it is JEDEC capable).
>
> As we don't really have to support out of tree code, I'd
> just go with this patch, assuming that we have to change
> device tree for boards with non-JEDEC flashes. It's
> effectively the same thing as platform data flag, except
> that it works automatically for OF platforms.
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> index 81e49a9..a610ca9 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c
> @@ -680,6 +680,16 @@ static const struct spi_device_id m25p_ids[] = {
> Â Â Â Â{ "m25p64", ÂINFO(0x202017, Â0, Â64 * 1024, 128, 0) },
> Â Â Â Â{ "m25p128", INFO(0x202018, Â0, 256 * 1024, Â64, 0) },
>
> + Â Â Â { "m25p05-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â32 * 1024, Â 2, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p10-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â32 * 1024, Â 4, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p20-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â64 * 1024, Â 4, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p40-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â64 * 1024, Â 8, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p80-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â64 * 1024, Â16, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p16-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â64 * 1024, Â32, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p32-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â64 * 1024, Â64, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p64-nonjedec", ÂINFO(0, 0, Â64 * 1024, 128, 0) },
> + Â Â Â { "m25p128-nonjedec", INFO(0, 0, 256 * 1024, Â64, 0) },
> +

are you picking the m25p because its flash geometry matches whatever
you're using, or because you have some weird variant of the m25p that
has JEDEC commands removed ?
-mike
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