[U-Boot] SPI flash writing

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu Mar 15 01:50:15 CET 2012


On Wednesday 14 March 2012 02:44:45 Gerlando Falauto wrote:
> The thing is, if you issue e write (or erase) and accidentally cross the
> flash size boundary, you get a wraparound (or aliasing, or whatever you
> want to call it) so that you end up overwriting (e.g. zeroing out bits)
> the initial sectors of the flash.

this is a bug that should be fixed.  i thought there was size checking in 
there, but maybe it got lost in the shuffle, or i'm just making sh*t up.
-mike
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