From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:10:37 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] flash hardware protection with CFI driver does
	not autoprotect monitor completely
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Hi Matthias,

On Monday 19 November 2007, Matthias Fuchs wrote:
> > Yes, I would prefer size too. This would lead to something like this on
> > 4xx boards:
> >
> > #define CONFIG_FLASH_AUTOPROTECT_LIST { {CFG_MONITOR_BASE,
> > CFG_MONITOR_LEN} }
>
> This looks fine and I will start voting for this, too.

;)

> I am wondering if it is possible to get rid of the current autoprotection
> code (3 x flash_protect for monitor, env and 2nd env) in
> drivers/cfi_flash.c and fully implement it through the AUTOPROTECT_LIST
> without modifyiny all board config files. Any nice idea?

Not really. But it sounds like a good idea.

> Especially on 4xx when you like to have sometinhg like
>
> #define CONFIG_FLASH_AUTOPROTECT_LIST { {CFG_MONITOR_BASE, CFG_MONITOR_LEN}
> }
>
> in your config file you will flash_protect most of the bootloader flash
> space twice.

Yes.

Best regards,
Stefan

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