Re: [PATCH v5 2/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Add support for mx66lm1g45g

[<Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com>]

On 12/20/21 12:25 PM, Pratyush Yadav wrote:
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> Hi Tudor,
> 
> On 17/12/21 08:06PM, Tudor Ambarus wrote:
>> mx66lm1g45g supports just 1-1-1, 8-8-8 and 8D-8D-8D modes. There are
>> versions of mx66lm1g45g which do not support SFDP, thus use
>> SPI_NOR_SKIP_SFDP. The RDID command issued through the octal peripheral
>> interface outputs data always in STR mode for whatever reason. Since
>> 8D-8D-8S is not common, avoid reading the ID when enabling the octal dtr
>> mode. Instead, read back the CR2 to check if the switch was successful.
> 
> I replied to your v2 just now about this.
> 
>> Tested in 1-1-1 and 8d-8d-8d modes using sama7g5 QSPI IP.
> 
> Link to datasheet in the commit message would be nice.

Do you know if there's a standardized way to add a link to a datasheet
in the commit message, i.e. should I use the Link tag or just a simple
link will do?
> 
> As discussed on IRC, this flash reverses byte order in 8D-8D-8D mode. So
> the data you write in 1S-1S-1S mode will be have byte order reversed
> when reading in 8D-8D-8D mode. Do you have any plans on doing something
> for this? Or do we just leave it to the user to figure it out?

I don't think we should amend this in software. Reading/writing in
8D-8D-8D will give sane results, the problem is just when you
use STR for write and DTR for read, or viceversa. This is just a bad
design and we should leave it as it is.

I'll address all your other comments in a v6. Thanks.
ta