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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] mtd: spinand: add support for detection with param page
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Am 16.05.22 um 16:10 schrieb Chuanhong Guo:
> Hi!
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 3:38 PM Frieder Schrempf
> <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Chuanhong,
>>
>> Am 14.04.22 um 16:34 schrieb Chuanhong Guo:
>>> SPI-NAND detection using chip ID isn't always reliable.
>>> Here are two known cases:
>>> 1. ESMT uses JEDEC ID from other vendors. This may collapse with future
>>> chips.
>>> 2. Winbond W25N01KV uses the exact same JEDEC ID as W25N01GV while
>>> having completely different chip parameters.
>>
>> I think they share the same first byte of the JEDEC ID, but the second
>> byte actually differs and would allow to differentiate between them, right?
>
> No. For the 128M version, all 3 bytes are the same between
> W25N01GV and W25N01KV.
>
>>
>> I have this patchset [1] that I didn't manage to send upstream yet which
>> adds support for the W25N02KV. I added the second ID byte to detect them.
>>
>> Still your approach using the ONFI data is more flexible of course and
>> probably a better way to handle this. I will see if I can find some time
>> to add support for the W25N02KV based on your patches.
>
> Don't do that. I abandoned this patchset because I later found that
> some early W25N01GV doesn't contain a parameter page at all,
> which means detecting W25N01GV/KV using only the parameter
> page is unreliable.
> I think what Boris proposed earlier in v1 (use parameter page
> just to distinguish the two chips) is the correct way to go.
>
> BTW I was making this patchset for a potential future ID conflict
> between ESMT and GigaDevice, and I don't actually need to
> deal with the W25N01GV/KV nonsense now, so I don't have a
> plan for send a new version of this atm.

Ok, what a mess. Thanks for the explanations. I will try to send my
original patches for supporting W25N02KV then.

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