edb7212 flash size bug

[Jonathan Larmour]

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.

Jifl
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