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Traditionally, Linux unlocks the whole flash because there are legacy
devices which has the write protection bits set by default at startup.
If you actually want to use the flash protection bits, eg. because there
is a read-only part for a bootloader, this automatic unlocking is
harmful. If there is no hardware write protection in place (usually
called WP#), a startup of the kernel just discards this protection.
I've gone through the datasheets of all the flashes (except the Intel
ones where I could not find any datasheet nor reference) which supports
the unlocking feature and looked how the sector protection was
implemented. The currently supported flashes can be divided into the
following two categories:
(1) block protection bits are non-volatile. Thus they keep their values
at reset and power-cycle
(2) flashes where these bits are volatile. After reset or power-cycle,
the whole memory array is protected.
(a) some devices needs a special "Global Unprotect" command, eg.
the Atmel AT25DF041A.
(b) some devices require to clear the BPn bits in the status
register.
Due to the reasons above, we do not want to clear the bits for flashes
which belong to category (1). Fortunately for us, only Atmel flashes
fall into category (2a). Implement the "Global Protect" and "Global
Unprotect" commands for these. For (2b) we can use normal block
protection locking scheme.
This patch adds a new flag to indicate the case (2). Only if we have
such a flash we unlock the whole flash array. To be backwards compatible
it also introduces a kernel configuration option which restores the
complete legacy behavior ("Disable write protection on any flashes").
Hopefully, this will clean up "unlock the entire flash for legacy
devices" once and for all.
For reference here are the actually commits which introduced the legacy
behavior (and extended the behavior to other chip manufacturers):
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| maps | ||
| nand | ||
| parsers | ||
| spi-nor | ||
| tests | ||
| ubi | ||
| ftl.c | ||
| inftlcore.c | ||
| inftlmount.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mtd_blkdevs.c | ||
| mtdblock_ro.c | ||
| mtdblock.c | ||
| mtdchar.c | ||
| mtdconcat.c | ||
| mtdcore.c | ||
| mtdcore.h | ||
| mtdoops.c | ||
| mtdpart.c | ||
| mtdpstore.c | ||
| mtdsuper.c | ||
| mtdswap.c | ||
| nftlcore.c | ||
| nftlmount.c | ||
| rfd_ftl.c | ||
| sm_ftl.c | ||
| sm_ftl.h | ||
| ssfdc.c | ||