[U-Boot] [PATCH] mpc83xx: add h/w flash protection to board configs (was Re: erase and saveenv stop working after using fw_setenv)

Kim Phillips kim.phillips at freescale.com
Tue Sep 23 16:49:43 CEST 2008


On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:04:50 +0200
Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> The problem is that  the  MPC8323ERDB  board  has  flash  chips  that
> support  hardware  flash  protection  (locking), but the board config
> file does  not  select  the  CFG_FLASH_PROTECTION  option.  Therefore
> U-Boot  will  not  make  any  attempts  to  lock  or unlock any flash
> sectors.
> 
> 
> I think two things should be done:
> 
> a) Kim, I think it would make sense to  add  CFG_FLASH_PROTECTION  to
>    all  board  configurations  that use lockable flash chips. I would
>    even consider this a bug fix and pull it into the upcoming 2008-10
>    release, if you want.

ok, I'll leave non-fsl boards up to their maintainers though:



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