[flashrom] [PATCH] Fix evil twins of Macronix MX25L1605, MX25L3205, MX25L6405.

Stefan Tauner stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at
Sat Mar 16 02:23:43 CET 2013


On Sun,  3 Feb 2013 08:40:08 +0100
Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Similarly to the previous patch this one updates the chips identified as above
> with references to and data about their respective twins. Unlike previously this
> one deals with the more evil details.
> 
> Helge Wagner from GE discovered some problems with chips sharing IDs
> and proposed a patch to tackle (some of) them, see:
> http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/3709/
> That patch was bitrotting in our mailboxes for a long time and it is still not
> ready for merge, but we increasingly get reports about problems (e.g.
> http://paste.flashrom.org/view.php?id=1525) regarding these chips and
> hence must act to ensure users' safety.
> 
> This patch splits the chip definitions of evil twins into separate ones which
> correctly declare the respective attributes (the main problems are the erase
> block sizes for the 0x20 opcode and hence my changes combine different
> chips with partly different attributes apart from their names as long as the
> erasers layout it the same). This forces the user to select the (right) chip
> definition with the -c/--chip parameter and hence will break a number of
> previously perfectly working environments.
> 
> 0x2015 is used by and split to
>  - MX25L1605 (64kB sectors in 0x20 erases)
>  - MX25L1605A (4kB in 0x20 erases and an additional 0x52 opcode with 64kB blocks)
>  - MX25L1605D/MX25L1608D (4k sectors in 0x20 erases)
> 
> 0x2016 is used by and split to
>  - MX25L3205, MX25L3205A (64kB 0x20)
>  - MX25L3205D/MX25L3208D (4kB 0x20)
>  - MX25L3206E (4k 0x20, 64k 0x52)
> 
> 0x2017 is used by and split to
>  - MX25L6405 MX25L6405D (64k 0x20)
>  - MX25L6406E/MX25L6436E (4k 0x20)
>  - MX25L6445E (4k 0x20, 64k 0x52)
> 
> Bonus: add some minor details to MX25L1635D, MX25L1635E, MX25L3235D,
> MX25L12805D.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at student.tuwien.ac.at>

self-acked and committed in r1657.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner




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