[U-Boot-Users] 8xx watchdog too short

Antonio Di Bacco antonio.dibacco at aruba.it
Tue May 23 22:37:34 CEST 2006


I mean that, when the environment is not good, the uboot write something into 
this sector and the right crc. it writes something like:

Saving Environment to Flash...
Un-Protected 1 sectors
Erasing Flash...
. done
Erased 1 sectors
Writing to Flash... done

Bye.


On Tuesday 23 May 2006 22:29, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <200605232051.13818.antonio.dibacco at aruba.it> you wrote:
> > I have the watchdog enabled. Today I deleted the environment, upon reset
> > the u-boot "reformatted" this environment, but the watchdog expires just
> > during this operation. I have the SYPCR with SWTC set to maximum value
> > 0xFFFF.
>
> What do you  mean  that  U-Boot  "reformatted"  the  environment?  It
> doesn't do anything like this.
>
> > Ok, I can enable the watchdog after this flash "format", but I don't want
> > modify the u-boot behaviour.
> >
> > How can this happen?
>
> Please explain what exactly is happening.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk




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