On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 04:04:59PM +0100, Gordon Bos wrote: > Hi, > > I've had some further discussion on this with another B3 owner. > According to an old patch that Excito corporation built for kernel > version 2.6 the flash memory is in fact a ||Numonyx MP25P16 > The driver however must be m25p80. Hi Gordon Here is what my B3 says during boot: m25p80 spi0.0: m25p16 (2048 Kbytes) 3 ofpart partitions found on MTD device spi0.0 Creating 3 MTD partitions on "spi0.0": 0x000000000000-0x0000000c0000 : "u-boot" 0x0000000c0000-0x0000000e0000 : "u-boot env" 0x0000000e0000-0x000000200000 : "data" m25p80 is the driver being used. The device is an m25p16. > m25p16@0 { > #address-cells = <1>; > #size-cells = <1>; > - compatible = "st,m25p16"; > + compatible = "st,m25p80"; Here, compatibility indicates what the device is. The kernel will then find a driver for that device. If you look in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c you see a long list of devices this driver supports, of which m25p16. Also, if you specify the wrong device here, the kernel will complain when it asks the device to identify itself and find it is different: http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c#L915 it will print a message: "found %s, expected %s\n" Are you seeing such a message? Maybe your B3 has a different device than mine? Thanks Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html