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                            SPI NOR framework
                 ============================================
  
  Part I - Why do we need this framework?
  ---------------------------------------
  
  SPI bus controllers (drivers/spi/) only deal with streams of bytes; the bus
  controller operates agnostic of the specific device attached. However, some
  controllers (such as Freescale's QuadSPI controller) cannot easily handle
  arbitrary streams of bytes, but rather are designed specifically for SPI NOR.
  
  In particular, Freescale's QuadSPI controller must know the NOR commands to
  find the right LUT sequence. Unfortunately, the SPI subsystem has no notion of
  opcodes, addresses, or data payloads; a SPI controller simply knows to send or
  receive bytes (Tx and Rx). Therefore, we must define a new layering scheme under
  which the controller driver is aware of the opcodes, addressing, and other
  details of the SPI NOR protocol.
  
  Part II - How does the framework work?
  --------------------------------------
  
  This framework just adds a new layer between the MTD and the SPI bus driver.
  With this new layer, the SPI NOR controller driver does not depend on the
  m25p80 code anymore.
  
     Before this framework, the layer is like:
  
                     MTD
           ------------------------
                    m25p80
           ------------------------
  	       SPI bus driver
           ------------------------
  	        SPI NOR chip
  
     After this framework, the layer is like:
                     MTD
           ------------------------
                SPI NOR framework
           ------------------------
                    m25p80
           ------------------------
  	       SPI bus driver
           ------------------------
  	       SPI NOR chip
  
    With the SPI NOR controller driver (Freescale QuadSPI), it looks like:
                     MTD
           ------------------------
                SPI NOR framework
           ------------------------
                  fsl-quadSPI
           ------------------------
  	       SPI NOR chip
  
  Part III - How can drivers use the framework?
  ---------------------------------------------
  
  The main API is spi_nor_scan(). Before you call the hook, a driver should
  initialize the necessary fields for spi_nor{}. Please see
  drivers/mtd/spi-nor/spi-nor.c for detail. Please also refer to fsl-quadspi.c
  when you want to write a new driver for a SPI NOR controller.