[PATCH v2 6/6] mtd: spi-nor: core: avoid odd length/address writes in 8D-8D-8D mode

Michael Walle michael at walle.cc
Tue Jun 1 05:44:57 PDT 2021


Am 2021-05-31 20:17, schrieb Pratyush Yadav:
> On Octal DTR capable flashes like Micron Xcella the writes cannot start
> or end at an odd address in Octal DTR mode. Extra 0xff bytes need to be
> appended or prepended to make sure the start address and end address 
> are
> even. 0xff is used because on NOR flashes a program operation can only
> flip bits from 1 to 0, not the other way round. 0 to 1 flip needs to
> happen via erases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav at ti.com>

Reviewed-by: Michael Walle <michael at walle.cc>



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