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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 23:31:17 +0530
From:   Pratyush Yadav <p.yadav@ti.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 12/16] mtd: spi-nor: perform a Soft Reset on shutdown
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On 10/05/20 11:22AM, Tudor.Ambarus@microchip.com wrote:
> Hi, Pratyush,
> 
> On Friday, April 24, 2020 9:44:06 PM EEST Pratyush Yadav wrote:
> > A Software Reset sequence will return the flash to Power-on-Reset (POR)
> > state. It consists of two commands: Soft Reset Enable and Soft Reset.
> > 
> > Perform a Soft Reset on shutdown on flashes that support it so that the
> > flash can be reset to its initial state and any configurations made by
> > spi-nor (given that they're only done in volatile registers) will be
> > reset. This will hand back the flash in pristine state for any further
> > operations on it.
> 
> Please don't introduce SPI_NOR_SOFT_RESET yet. We should instead determine the 
> software reset sequence by inspecting BFPT[16], bits 13:8.
 
 Ok. Will do.

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav
Texas Instruments India