1) Flash was erased as an integral part of flash write.
It was not documented so with usual workflow it resulted
in erasing flash twice (and reducing flash lifespan)
and in almost double flashing time.
2) Sector erase was silently skipped if "is_erased" flag was set.
"is_erased" logic was not reliable, e.g. when a row write
was aborted after successful write of some pages, sector was
still considered as erased. "is_erased" flag could not
cope with flash writes from a user program.
3) Writing of a block with start address unaligned to a flash page
resulted in failed assert and OpenOCD abort.
4) Disabling cache in bit 18 of 16-bit halfword never worked.
MCU implements cache invalidate in hardware so there is no need
to take care about. This bug was reported by Tony DiCola.
New code does not erase flash in write operation.
Instead it traditionally relies on erasing flash beforehand.
"is_erased" logic and cache disabling is completely removed.
It simplifies write procedure a lot and flash write is now faster.
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