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From: David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Vipin Malik <vipin.malik@daniel.com>,
	joakim.tjernlund@lumentis.se,
	'Chris Read ' <chris.read@activesilicon.co.uk>,
	mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Power blackouts and brownouts
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 13:37:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010427133716.A20218@stm.lbl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22885.988382072@redhat.com>; from dwmw2@infradead.org on Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:34:32PM +0100

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:34:32PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> Note that 'well designed embedded systems' does _not_ include the Intel
> Assabet platform. I believe nothing ever asserts the flash reset line, so if
> you reset while the flash is in a mode other than read mode, the CPU's reset
> vector is pointing at status words :)

This is also a problem for soft-reset.  (Been there, dont that.)
That's why the Sharp chip driver always puts the chips into read
mode after checking the status.  I believe at least one of the
other chip drivers don't do this.



dave...



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-27 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-26 15:55 Power blackouts and brownouts Vipin Malik
2001-04-27  7:39 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2001-04-27 14:30   ` Vipin Malik
2001-04-27 14:34     ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-27 15:31       ` Vipin Malik
2001-04-27 20:37       ` David Schleef [this message]
2001-04-28 10:34         ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-28 16:00           ` sharp driver dissimilarities David Schleef
2001-04-28 16:11             ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-28 17:15               ` David Schleef
2001-04-28 17:26                 ` David Woodhouse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-26 13:54 Power blackouts and brownouts Hicks, Jamey
2001-04-26 13:06 Chris Read
2001-04-26 15:35 ` Bari Ari

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