spear_smi_read_sr(9)

💅 spear_smi_read_sr(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for spear_smi_read_sr — yes that mouthful, we love her 💖 this is the little function that goes and peeks at the flash chip's status register through SMI, and honestly? she's iconic for it.

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✨ NAME ✨

spear_smi_read_sr — literally just reads the status register of the flash, through SMI 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int spear_smi_read_sr (struct spear_smi *dev , u32 bank );

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. one dev, one bank, returns an int. slay ✨

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• dev — the structure of SMI information. she's the main character, she carries all the SMI deets 💅
• bank — the bank to which the flash is connected. like, which flash chip are we talking to?? that one 🦋

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so here's the tea: this routine will return the status register of the flash chip present at the given bank. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap, no extra steps, no weird side quests — you hand her a bank, she hands you back the status register of whatever flash chip lives there 😌✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

the whole friend group, gathered for u 🫶 go check out the kernel file ./drivers/mtd/devices/spear_smi.c and then:

• struct spear_smi(9)
• struct spear_snor_flash(9)
• spear_smi_wait_till_ready(9)
• spear_smi_int_handler(9)
• spear_smi_hw_init(9)
• get_flash_index(9)
• spear_smi_write_enable(9)
• spear_smi_erase_sector(9)
• spear_mtd_erase(9)
• spear_mtd_read(9)
• spear_mtd_write(9)
• spear_smi_probe_flash(9)
• spear_smi_probe(9)
• spear_smi_remove(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎉 this lil beauty lives over in ./drivers/mtd/devices and it's dated October 2026 — so she's from the future, highkey obsessed 🔥✨ go read a status register, ily, bye 💖🧚