22 Aug
2005
22 Aug
'05
6:17 p.m.
In message 4309F122.5090907@orkun.us you wrote:
The point is that all the sectors of the flash is protected "automatically" on power up.
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The point is you can simply use already available "protect off" mechanism to lift the lock on these sectors instead of defining
You can do this, but I would reject such a broken implementation.
U-Boot shall come up with writapble flash, except for the few protected sectors where U-Boot itself lives (plus the environment, plus eventually FPGA images needed to boot the hardware).
present does not go away. IMHO, There should be no code in real life that simply unlocks all sectors. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.
Please see my previous posting about this.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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