Fix to allow loading binary images in areas RedBoot does not believe to be RAM.
Gary Thomas
gary@chez-thomas.org
Mon Jan 13 18:37:00 GMT 2003
On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 19:32, Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I don't think I sent this one one yet. If I did, my apologies -- I still
> haven't done that brain upgrade that I was looking for last week.
>
> Anyway, I went to load a binary image into an area of memory that RedBoot
> did not believe to be RAM, but I knew to be RAM. RedBoot kindly put up a
> prompt asking if I really knew what I was doing. So I said "Yes". Then
> RedBoot promptly started the download, and then halted it when it tried to
> write beyond the end of what it thought was RAM. This annoyed me a little
> bit (since I just told it I knew what I was doing), and the result is this
> patch. I figure if RedBoot has already asked the user if (s)he knows what
> (s)he is doing, then RedBoot should remember that.
>
Fair enough :-) I'll commit this, thanks.
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