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Octavian Purdila committed 05474efd318
MLK-14667 ARM: imx v7/v7_mfg defconfig: disable CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS
Commit 556fa2d7d7e9 ("ENGR00318895-9: mtd: spi-nor: add more read
transfer flags for n25q256a") was incompletely cherry-picked, leaving
out the removal of the SECT_4K flag:
"From the datasheet, the chip support the 64K sector erase operation.
So remove the SECT_4K for the chip which makes the flash_erase
faster."
However, the above statement is not entirely correct. Using SECT_4K
can result in faster erase operations, if the block to erase is
smaller. The documentation in spi-nor.c also states:
"All newly added entries should describe *hardware* and should use
SECT_4K (or SECT_4K_PMC) if hardware supports erasing 4 KiB
sectors. For usage scenarios excluding small sectors there is config
option that can be disabled: CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS. For
historical (and compatibility) reasons (before we got above config)
some old entries may be missing 4K flag."
Unfortunately, using SECT_4K means that ubifs will fail, because it
needs a minimum LBE of 15K.
Based on the above comments, it looks like the best way to handle the
ubifs issue is to disable CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS instead of
removing SECT_4K for the particular n25q256a chip. This approach also
has the advantage that will make ubifs work with any chip that has the
SECT_4K flag.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Han Xu <han.xu@nxp.com>