edb7212 flash size bug

[Gary Thomas]

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.

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