[PATCH v2 1/3] Revert "mtd: spi-nor: remove Fujitsu MB85RS1MT support"

Ronan Dalton Ronan.Dalton at alliedtelesis.co.nz
Thu Jul 2 16:48:02 PDT 2026


Hi Richard,

On Thu, 2026-07-02 at 07:39 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Do you really need (POSIX) file system semantics?
> You could partition the FRAM into cells and then work with them.
> e.g. Just dd into it and erase it when needed...
> Maybe the NVMEM cells mechanism needs some polishing but this sounds
> reasonable to me.

Yes, that could work for secrets storage. However we also store
persistent logs and DHCP leases on this flash to minimize read/writes
on the main flash, and this data is stored as files of varying lengths.
A filesystem provides the most straightforward way of storing this data
for us.

That's not to say we couldn't develop some system of using the nvmem
device as a backend for this data. This may be something we look at in
the future.

Thanks,
Ronan.



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