[PATCH 08/30] mtd: spi-nor: winbond: W25Q32JV-Q/N: Add quad page program capability

Miquel Raynal miquel.raynal at bootlin.com
Fri May 29 08:22:28 PDT 2026


The benefit is not massive @25MHz, yet it is a supported feature
of the chip which is already handled by a flag, so let's enable it and
earn that little 1% write throughput.

Before:
$ flash_speed /dev/mtd0 -d -c10
eraseblock write speed is 560 KiB/s
page write speed is 540 KiB/s
2 page write speed is 550 KiB/s

After:
eraseblock write speed is 578 KiB/s
page write speed is 557 KiB/s
2 page write speed is 567 KiB/s

Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal at bootlin.com>
---
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/spi-nor/spi0.0/capabilities
Supported read modes by the flash
 1S-1S-1S
  opcode	0x03
  mode cycles	0
  dummy cycles	0
 1S-1S-2S
  opcode	0x3b
  mode cycles	0
  dummy cycles	8
 1S-2S-2S
  opcode	0xbb
  mode cycles	2
  dummy cycles	2
 1S-1S-4S
  opcode	0x6b
  mode cycles	0
  dummy cycles	8
 1S-4S-4S
  opcode	0xeb
  mode cycles	2
  dummy cycles	4
 4S-4S-4S
  opcode	0xeb
  mode cycles	2
  dummy cycles	0

Supported page program modes by the flash
 1S-1S-1S
  opcode	0x02
 1S-1S-4S
  opcode	0x32

$ dd if=/dev/urandom of=./spi_test bs=1M count=2
2+0 records in
2+0 records out
$ mtd_debug erase /dev/mtd0 0 2097152
Erased 2097152 bytes from address 0x00000000 in flash
$ mtd_debug read /dev/mtd0 0 2097152 spi_read
Copied 2097152 bytes from address 0x00000000 in flash to spi_read
$ hexdump spi_read
0000000 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
*
0200000
$ sha256sum spi_read
4bda3a28f4ffe603c0ec1258c0034d65a1a0d35ab7bd523a834608adabf03cc5  spi_read
$ mtd_debug write /dev/mtd0 0 2097152 spi_test
Copied 2097152 bytes from spi_test to address 0x00000000 in flash
$ mtd_debug read /dev/mtd0 0 2097152 spi_read
Copied 2097152 bytes from address 0x00000000 in flash to spi_read
$ sha256sum spi*
83e7d587bce3b2031c82939839cc1fbcf62b8939b35882d176f207b0722d0dba  spi_read
83e7d587bce3b2031c82939839cc1fbcf62b8939b35882d176f207b0722d0dba  spi_test
$ mtd_debug erase /dev/mtd0 0 2097152
Erased 2097152 bytes from address 0x00000000 in flash
$ mtd_debug read /dev/mtd0 0 2097152 spi_read
Copied 2097152 bytes from address 0x00000000 in flash to spi_read
$ sha256sum spi*
4bda3a28f4ffe603c0ec1258c0034d65a1a0d35ab7bd523a834608adabf03cc5  spi_read
83e7d587bce3b2031c82939839cc1fbcf62b8939b35882d176f207b0722d0dba  spi_test
---
 drivers/mtd/spi-nor/winbond.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/winbond.c b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/winbond.c
index 8fc74cba0ee0..7a8e3cbdd6a4 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/winbond.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/winbond.c
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ static const struct flash_info winbond_nor_parts[] = {
 	}, {
 		/* W25Q32JV-Q/N */
 		.id = SNOR_ID(0xef, 0x40, 0x16),
+		.flags = SPI_NOR_QUAD_PP,
 	}, {
 		/* W25Q64JV-Q/N */
 		.id = SNOR_ID(0xef, 0x40, 0x17),

-- 
2.53.0




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