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On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 06:15 -0500, alfred hitch wrote: > Hi, > > Some more debugging , > I can write successfully to other areas of flash using my code . > so it seems that the redboot is locking that last erase block (fis > area) and so buffer_write mode fails ?? > > if that the case, how can I verify and change this in the redboot code ? > Somone please tell me atleast this. > > I am running short of time to deadline here -:( > (murphy law of last minute crash , causing me to do these last minute changes.) You can lock and unlock MTD partitions from Linux using an ioctl on /dev/mtdN, I forget what the ioctl is put a quick look through the Linux headers should throw it up. I believe there are utilities in the utils directory of MTD CVS called mtdlock and mtdunlock which implement it already. Ian. -- Ian Campbell "MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca)
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