[U-Boot-Users] Re: Redundant environment

Tolunay Orkun listmember at orkun.us
Fri May 5 18:45:33 CEST 2006


Tolunay Orkun wrote:
> 
>> I am aware that some people interpreted the term "redundand  environ-
>> ment"  that two identical copies of the environment were stored. This
>> was obviously an unlucky choice of the name for this feature.  Please
>> let's  exclude  this  "I expected to see this, now change the code to
>> match my expectations" aspect for a moment. However, I still fail  to
>> see  any  improvements  in  the suggested change; actually I only see
>> disadvantages like doubling the number of flash erase cycles for  the
>> environment sectors.
>>   
> I understand you concern. In our application the environment would not 
> be updated occasionally so that is not a big concern for us.

I meant to say the environment would be updated occasionally but somehow 
inverted the meaning.

Best regards,
Tolunay





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