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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:26:00 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fsl: board EEPROM has the CRC in the wrong
	location
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Dear Tabi Timur-B04825,

In message <5000106B.5090007@freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> > It will work by chance, accessing random data.  This is crap.
> 
> It is not crap, and it will not work by chance.  It is not accessing 
> random data, it is accessing the CRC in the old location, just like the 
> current code does today.

If you have the CRC at 0xFC, and the CRC is incorrect, then it _will_
access random data, and result inundefined behaviour. Yes, this _is_ a
crappy design.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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