[PATCH V1 3/5] mtd: m25p80: add the quad-read support

Marek Vasut marex at denx.de
Thu Aug 22 19:58:05 EDT 2013


Dear Mark Brown,

> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:29:01PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:34:53PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> > > 
> > > This should be a generic property for all quad devices to use, though,
> > > since the same thing applies everywhere.
> > 
> > Full ACK, "m25p,dual-read" and "m25p,quad-read" sound like a good prop
> > names?
> 
> I was actually thinking something more generic than that - putting the
> property at the SPI generic bindings level.  Though if all flashes with
> this dual/quad read functionality have the prefix m25p the above would
> work also, at the minute this does seem to be mostly used by flash (I
> bet someone's got some DSPs or something though).

Ah! So you mean the SPI controller would provide information that it can do 
dual/quad transfers? But then, the additional pins can only be wired to certain 
chips (controller by certain CS lines).

Best regards,
Marek Vasut



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