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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] SPI flash writing
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:50:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201203142050.16948.vapier@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F603E5D.205@keymile.com>

On Wednesday 14 March 2012 02:44:45 Gerlando Falauto wrote:
> The thing is, if you issue e write (or erase) and accidentally cross the
> flash size boundary, you get a wraparound (or aliasing, or whatever you
> want to call it) so that you end up overwriting (e.g. zeroing out bits)
> the initial sectors of the flash.

this is a bug that should be fixed.  i thought there was size checking in 
there, but maybe it got lost in the shuffle, or i'm just making sh*t up.
-mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 18:25 [U-Boot] SPI flash writing Gerlando Falauto
2012-03-13 20:11 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-13 20:17   ` Jason Cooper
2012-03-13 20:35     ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-13 21:31       ` Falauto, Gerlando
2012-03-14  2:16         ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-14  6:44           ` Gerlando Falauto
2012-03-15  0:50             ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
2012-03-15  0:02         ` Tom Rini
2012-03-15  0:51           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-14  2:18 ` Simon Glass
2012-03-14  6:58   ` Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-03 14:34 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] cmd_sf: add size checking to spi flash commands Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-03 19:31   ` Mike Frysinger
2012-07-21 17:29   ` [U-Boot] [PATCH v2] " Mike Frysinger
2012-04-03 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 0/2] SPI flash update command Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-04  6:40   ` Valentin Longchamp
2012-04-03 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] cmd_sf: let "sf update" erase last sector as a whole Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-04  0:28   ` Simon Glass
2012-04-03 15:14 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] cmd_sf: "sf update" preserve the final part of the last sector Gerlando Falauto
2012-04-04  0:33   ` Simon Glass

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