[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] smi driver support for SPEAr SoCs

Albert ARIBAUD
2009-12-19T07:59:51Z

Vipin Kumar a ?crit :

>> Why don;t you protect sectors where the U-Bootimage and environment
>> are stored?
>
> Since the code is being developed for a development board, erasing and
> flashing the uboot is frequent. This is done only to save unprotect every
> time before erasing/flashing uboot

You could protect the sectors and then have a script in the default
environment that automates unprotecting as well as erasing, loading new
u-boot and flashing. This way you get the best of both worlds,
protection against accidental erasures and simplicity of reflashing.

Amicalement,
--
Albert.