[U-Boot] [PATCH] fsl: board EEPROM has the CRC in the wrong location

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Jul 13 06:32:58 CEST 2012


Dear Timur Tabi,

In message <4FFF5524.2080704 at freescale.com> you wrote:
>
> My patch provides transparent updates to handle it.  It will read broken
> EEPROMs and verify the CRC in the old location, and if you have re-save
> the EEPROM, it will put the CRC in the right place.

It will work by chance, accessing random data.  This is crap.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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