linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtd: spi-nor: add Global Block Unlock support

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:25:22 +0000
From:   <Tudor.Ambarus@...rochip.com>
To:     <marek.vasut@...il.com>, <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        <computersforpeace@...il.com>, <bbrezillon@...nel.org>,
        <richard@....at>
CC:     <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <anuragku@...inx.com>,
        <Cyrille.Pitchen@...rochip.com>, <Nicolas.Ferre@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mtd: spi-nor: add Global Block Unlock support



On 07/17/2018 07:28 PM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
> We can't determine this purely by manufacturer type and it's not
> autodetectable by anything like SFDP, so make a new flag for it:
> UNLOCK_GLOBAL_BLOCK.
> 
> Note that the Global Block Unlock command has different names
> depending on the manufacturer, but always the same command value:
> 0x98. Macronix's MX25U12835F names it Gang Block Unlock,
> Winbound's W25Q128FV names it Global Block Unlock and
> Microchip's SST26VF064B names it Global Block Protection Unlock.
> 
> Based on initial work done by Anurag Kumar Vulisha:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7611271/

Time passed and now I think that this should be part of the individual block
lock support, as an optimization when one wants to unlock the entire flash
memory. Will rework it.

Cheers,
ta