From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hawkins Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:22:14 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] RFQ: disable flash writes until after relocation? In-Reply-To: <20080720200750.F16F8248BF@gemini.denx.de> References: <20080720200750.F16F8248BF@gemini.denx.de> Message-ID: <4884C5C6.6020904@ovro.caltech.edu> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Wolfgang, >> We recently debugged a problem where a Flash write on >> MPC8349E and MPC8349EA processor boards was accidentally >> occurring during board initialization. > > A write to flash should not matter at all. Thats what I thought, until I saw the logic analyzer trace show otherwise ... >> This would protect against writes to the boot flash. > > This is not the way to go. Hushing up problems has never been a > solution. Instead, let's find and fix the culprit. > >> I figured I'd gauge if there was any interest in adding >> this feature before looking into it further. > > Frankly: I saee this as a non-issue. Let's rather fix the bug instead. Yep, fair enough. I figured that might be the consensus, hence I did not look into it too much. Cheers, Dave