Re: [PATCH 1/2] arm64: dts: amlogic: meson-sm1-odroid-hc4: mux the SPI NOR HOLD# and WP# pins

From: Neil Armstrong

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 05:25:01 EST


On 9/30/26 18:52, Igor Velkov via B4 Relay wrote:
From: Igor Velkov <iav@xxxxxx>

The SPI NOR flash uses six lines, but nor_pins covers only four: data,
clock and chip select. Nothing claims HOLD# (BOOT_3) and WP# (BOOT_7),
so they keep the boot ROM setting. After a boot from SPI they are in
the nor function and the flash works. After a boot from SD with the
button under the board, they stay eMMC data lines pulled low, and
spi-nor reports "unrecognized JEDEC id bytes: 00 00 00 00 00 00".

Mux them in a board-local group. nor_pins is shared with boards that
use BOOT_0..7 for eMMC, and the HC4 has eMMC disabled.

Tested on ODROID-HC4: after a boot from SD past the SPI, the flash
probes as a 16 MiB mtd0 and reads back correctly.

Fixes: 7178f340e929 ("arm64: dts: meson-sm1-odroid-hc4: add spifc node to ODROID-HC4")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Igor Velkov <iav@xxxxxx>
---
arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-odroid-hc4.dts | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-odroid-hc4.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-odroid-hc4.dts
index 3ece30a0a1ff..5ce76a1bfe02 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-odroid-hc4.dts
+++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/amlogic/meson-sm1-odroid-hc4.dts
@@ -124,9 +124,19 @@ &sd_emmc_c {
status = "disabled";
};
+&periphs_pinctrl {
+ hc4_nor_hold_wp_pins: nor-hold-wp {
+ mux {
+ groups = "nor_hold", "nor_wp";
+ function = "nor";
+ bias-disable;
+ };
+ };
+};

Could you move this to meson-g12-common.dtsi instead ?

+
&spifc {
status = "okay";
- pinctrl-0 = <&nor_pins>;
+ pinctrl-0 = <&nor_pins>, <&hc4_nor_hold_wp_pins>;
pinctrl-names = "default";
flash@0 {


Thanks,
Neil