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Subject: Re: Intel P30, locked sectors?
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Nils Faerber wrote:
> Just in theory, can one write to a locked sector?
>   
No.
> I ask because I flashed the very same rootfs to the chip using the
> bootloader. The bootloader, which is BLOB BTW, seems to be able to write
> to the chips and the contents written also seems to be OK (since I can
> boot and mount the rootfs).
>   
Not sure how blob works, maybe it unlocks, writes, then relocks...