[U-Boot] NOR sectors are not all protected as they should be.

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Alexandre Gambier,

In message <4D539E01.6070500 at ftemaximal.fr> you wrote:
> 
> > waste of memory.  You can see that the following sectors are unused
> > from the 'E' (= empty) flag.
> Even if the first 4 sectors are empty they are protected (see below). So 
> the protected sectors are not selected depending on if U-Boot is burnt 
> in them, isn't it ?

No, they are selected based on the real size of the (running) U-Boot
image.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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