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To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd/gpmi : add BBT support
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:21:30 +0100
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> > Actually it's not board specific. You can run various bootloaders or
> > various bootstrap tools on any of those boards. Though pdata seems ok
> > for the default case, maybe we should have a simple way to override
> > this?
> 
> You mean you want to switch to/drop the BBT if you want to? On MX23,
> this can be easily a very dangerous thing to do. What's the use case?

Tools that don't support writing the BBT properly.

> 
> Regards,
> 
>    Wolfram