From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerry Van Baren Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:58:08 -0400 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Can I write to flash using mw command In-Reply-To: <452DA71B.5080802@orkun.us> References: <20061006033619.65376.qmail@web33205.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45264A79.1090600@smiths-aerospace.com> <452D74D2.3080300@orkun.us> <452DA71B.5080802@orkun.us> Message-ID: <452E2DD0.3070409@smiths-aerospace.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Tolunay Orkun wrote: > Tolunay Orkun wrote: >>> is it not possible to write consecutively as with >>> the conventional memory? >> It works as long as do not try to turn 1 bits to 0. > > Correction: as long as you do not try to turn 0 bits to 1. > > Tolunay Back when I was a kid, all we had were ones. To make a zero we had to subtract two ones. To change a zero to a one, we had to divide by zero to get an infinite number and then divide it by itself again to get a one... its no wonder flash wears out! gvb ;-)