[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] cfi_flash.c patches

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <4309F122.5090907 at orkun.us> you wrote:
>
> > The point is that all the sectors of the flash is protected
> > "automatically" on power up.
...
> The point is you can simply use already available "protect off"
> mechanism to lift the lock on these sectors instead of defining

You can do this, but I would reject such a broken implementation.

U-Boot shall come  up  with  writapble  flash,  except  for  the  few
protected  sectors  where  U-Boot itself lives (plus the environment,
plus eventually FPGA images needed to boot the hardware).

> present does not go away. IMHO, There should be no code in real life
> that simply unlocks all sectors. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.

Please see my previous posting about this.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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