[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.

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale




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