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David Woodhouse wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 10:35 -0800, Alice Hennessy wrote:
> > I believe it's ok to set up partitions for a flash and not have all the flash visible.  Perhaps
> > a better way to do this would be to just make another partition and make the protected part
> > read only.   But I believe not making the whole flash visible is also acceptable.
> > BTW, I don't use redboot partitioning with this flash.
> >
> > David,  if you think it's bad practice,  I will change my mapping file instead.
>
> I'd very much prefer to show the chip driver the whole chip and
> partition it appropriately, yes please.
>
> --
> dwmw2

Will do.

Alice