[U-Boot-Users] RFQ: disable flash writes until after relocation?

David Hawkins
2008-07-21T17:22:14Z

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