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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] fsl: board EEPROM has the CRC in the wrong location
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:12:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5000AB43.6090406@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120713230100.5E9C1200320@gemini.denx.de>

On 07/13/2012 06:01 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Timur Tabi,
> 
> In message <500098F6.8050702@freescale.com> you wrote:
>>
>> I honestly don't see what's wrong with checking the CRC in the old
>> location, and using it if it's valid.  Like I said, we already
> 
> You are interpreting something which can be random data.
> 
>> if (e.version == 0)
>> 	crc_offset = 0x72;
>>
>> So here we're reading the 'version' field before we validate the data,
>> because we need to check the version to know where the CRC is.
> 
> Argh.  More crap ...

And how would you do it?  You have to look at *something* first, and
whatever that is could be a coincidence if you think people are going to
stuff arbitrary data into the EEPROM.

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-13 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-12 21:46 [U-Boot] [PATCH] fsl: board EEPROM has the CRC in the wrong location Timur Tabi
2012-07-12 22:03 ` sun york-R58495
2012-07-12 22:37   ` Scott Wood
2012-07-12 22:44     ` Timur Tabi
2012-07-12 22:46     ` sun york-R58495
2012-07-12 22:49       ` Scott Wood
2012-07-12 22:52         ` Timur Tabi
2012-07-13  4:32           ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-13 12:11             ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-07-13 21:26               ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-13  4:30   ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-13  4:38     ` sun york-R58495
2012-07-13 12:12       ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-07-13 21:22         ` York Sun
2012-07-13 12:10     ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-07-13 21:25       ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-13 21:29         ` Timur Tabi
2012-07-13 21:32           ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-13 21:39             ` Timur Tabi
2012-07-13 21:45         ` Scott Wood
2012-07-13 21:53           ` Timur Tabi
2012-07-13 22:19             ` Scott Wood
2012-07-13 22:22               ` Timur Tabi
2012-07-13 22:41                 ` Scott Wood
2012-07-13 22:46                   ` Timur Tabi
2012-07-13 22:54                     ` Scott Wood
2012-07-13 23:01             ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-13 23:12               ` Scott Wood [this message]
     [not found]                 ` <C5EFF1F960B6FC4C873CF9BD5FE250210791DCC8@039-SN2MPN1-013.039d.mgd.msft.net>
2012-07-15 12:52                   ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2012-07-16 19:57                 ` Wolfgang Denk
2012-07-16 22:32                   ` Scott Wood
2012-07-13 22:59           ` Wolfgang Denk

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