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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>GD25WB256 Alternative + Firmware Changes (nRF9151 External Flash)</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/127712/gd25wb256-alternative-firmware-changes-nrf9151-external-flash</link><description>Hi, 
 I’m using GD25WB256 as external flash on nRF9151 for MCUboot secondary slot. It’s currently not available from our supplier, so I’m looking for alternatives. 
 Current overlay: 
 
 Questions: 
 
 What are good 256Mbit SPI NOR alternatives (preferably</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 13</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:05:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/127712/gd25wb256-alternative-firmware-changes-nrf9151-external-flash" /><item><title>RE: GD25WB256 Alternative + Firmware Changes (nRF9151 External Flash)</title><link>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/564528?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:05:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:3ecdb893-a949-4398-a41e-7a8e4b407df6</guid><dc:creator>Hung Bui</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hi Akshay,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We won&amp;#39;t be able to give you a specific recommendation for an alternative to GD25WB256. The NCS SDK is&amp;nbsp;highly agnostic to a specific flash chip.&amp;nbsp;Any modern QSPI flash will be &amp;quot;plug-and-play&amp;quot; once you update the JEDEC ID and size in your Devicetree. We are not supposed to give any &amp;quot;favorite&amp;quot; flash chip/ manufacturer that you should use.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as I know, you just need to use the correct JDEC ID and correct size in the device tree overlay you should be fine.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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[quote user=""]Anything to watch out for (4-byte addressing, SFDP, etc.)?[/quote]
&lt;p&gt;Not that I&amp;#39;m aware of, AFAIK you just need&amp;nbsp;&lt;span&gt;enter-4byte-addr = &amp;lt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;0x01&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;gt;; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;defined in the device tree overlay.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>