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Re: edb7212 flash size bug
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 16:43, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 11:52, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> >
> >>Jani Monoses wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi
> >>>this is a rediff/resend of a patch from August 2002
> >>>the edb7212 has 16Megs of flash but it's not contiguous
> >>>fi init -f overwrites redboot because it wraps after 8Megs.
> >>>the patch correctly sets the limits of the two blocks
> >>>sets the flash size to 16 in the linker script and changes an #if to #ifdef
> >>>to avoid a gcc warning
> >>
> >>I _would_ be happy to apply this, although I would have thought this would
> >>have been picked up in testing before, when we are all still in Red Hat.
> >>Gary, any opinions?
> >>
> >>I also note the patch doesn't have a ChangeLog, and omits to patch the
> >>.mlt file similarly (it's easy to guess how), but I can fix that up before
> >>it's committed if Jani doesn't get back to me before Gary does.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I think these patches are fine. Note that we were never able
> > to really test RedBoot on the 7211 hardware that Jani is making
> > changes for - we only had working 7212 boards - so that's probably
> > why we never saw this problem.
>
> Exactly :-). This is the 7212 we're talking about. Hence my query.
His patches seem to deal with the older 7211 which has a quite different
memory map/layout. I don't see them affecting the 7212 which we tested
"to death".
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