[PATCH v3 0/3] spi-nor: Add support for Intel SPI serial flash controller

Mika Westerberg mika.westerberg at linux.intel.com
Mon Aug 29 00:11:25 PDT 2016


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 10:10:41AM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is third version of the series. Previous versions can be found:
> 
>   v2: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2016-June/068277.html
>   v1: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/6/14/269
> 
> This series adds support for the Intel SPI serial flash controller found on
> many recent Intel CPUs including Baytrail and Braswell. This driver makes
> it possible to access the BIOS and other platform data which is stored on
> the SPI serial flash. It is also possible to upgrade the BIOS using this
> driver if it has not been protected by special hardware bits.
> 
> The patch [1/3] includes documentation how to upgrade BIOS on MinnowBoard
> MAX.
> 
> Since poking the SPI serial flash can brick the machine, this driver can
> only be enabled when CONFIG_EXPERT=y and even then it will remain read-only
> unless instructed othwerwise by module parameter.
> 
> Lee can you ACK/NACK the MFD parts so that we can merge the whole series
> through the MTD tree?

Hi,

Any comments on this series? It missed v4.8 already so it would be nice
to get it merged for v4.9.

Thanks.



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