In the PMC pm49fl004, You got eight 64K size blocks.
You can erase the individual block and write that block only.
Regards
YH
-----邮件原件----- 发件人: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年4月21日 9:49 收件人: YhLu 抄送: LinuxBIOS 主题: Re: 答复: flash_rom start and size
On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 10:40, YhLu wrote:
For example,
- I only want to let end user to flash normal part [0-384k), and don't
let
him touch fallback part [384k, 512k).
there is no way you can really lock the flash.
- or I only want to update the payload image in the beginning, [0,64k).
you need some kind of flash translation layer to accomplish this. You need to back up some part of the erase block you want reserve , erase the block and write with updated and reserved data.
You probably need MTD.
Ollie
Regards
Yinghai Lu -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Li-Ta Lo [mailto:ollie@lanl.gov] 发送时间: 2004年4月21日 9:09 收件人: YhLu 抄送: LinuxBIOS 主题: Re: flash_rom start and size
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 20:06, YhLu wrote:
Ollie or David,
Can you modify the flash_rom to take start and size command line?
I mean
Flash_rom -start=0k -size=384k xxxx.rom
And xxxx.rom only to be 384k.
Why do you want to do this ? You should prepare the image the same size as your flash chip.
There are techinical difficulty doing this. Most flash parts are block/sector erase and byte program. There is no general way to start from an abitrary address to any size.
Ollie
Regards
YH
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