[U-Boot] [PATCH] fsl: board EEPROM has the CRC in the wrong location
Tabi Timur-B04825
B04825 at freescale.com
Fri Jul 13 14:11:23 CEST 2012
Wolfgang Denk wrote:
>> >My patch provides transparent updates to handle it. It will read broken
>> >EEPROMs and verify the CRC in the old location, and if you have re-save
>> >the EEPROM, it will put the CRC in the right place.
> It will work by chance, accessing random data. This is crap.
It is not crap, and it will not work by chance. It is not accessing
random data, it is accessing the CRC in the old location, just like the
current code does today.
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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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