[U-Boot-Users] Can I write to flash using mw command

[Ben Warren]

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 15:11 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> In message <452E2DD0.3070409 at smiths-aerospace.com> you wrote:
> >
> > Back when I was a kid, all we had were ones.  To make a zero we had to 
> 
> They changed it to zeros later, because a zero is much more powerful.
> For example, leading zeros can be very powerful, expecially when  you
> employ  them  in  the  management  of big companies. [BTW: that's the
> difference between commercial  and  scientific  notation:  scientists
> tend  to  suppress  leading  zeros.]  And, to quote an ancient usenet
> posting (sorry, the exact source is unknown to me):
> 
> Zero is an enigmatic value. It can mean success (fclose)  or  failure
> (scanf).  It  can  mean  black  or  white. It can mean no permissions
> (chmod) or all permissions (umask). It can mean now (setjmp) or later
> (atexit). It can mean the beginning (lseek) or the end (read). It can
> mean myself (getpgrp) or child (fork). It can mean  all  (kill's  1st
> argument)  or  nothing  (kill's  2nd argument). It can mean `default'
> (SIG_IGN) or `I don't care' (waitpid) or  `try  to  guess'  (strtol).
> Indeed 0 lets you talk to God (setuid).
> Verily is 0 all things to all people.

Obligatory follow-on from a long-forgotten source:

"The decline of the Roman Empire can be traced to the fact that, lacking
zero, they were unable to return from their C programs"