Hi Sebastian and Carsten:
It is a sequence number. Just like can interface has two instances, can0 and can1, 0 and 1 are the instance.
For flexspi, please see below lines:
#define BL_FEATURE_SPINAND_MODULE_PERIPHERAL_INSTANCE (0)
#define SPINAND_INSTANCE BL_FEATURE_SPINAND_MODULE_PERIPHERAL_INSTANCE
....
flexspi_nand_init(SPINAND_INSTANCE, config)
....
Regards
Daniel