Marcin Wiacek wrote: > 6.microswitch for real hardware blocking flashing (to prevent changing > firmware)
Flash protection is planned for the "later this year" aka "getting everything right this time" model. The idea is to have an emergency/recovery u-boot in a separate Flash chip, which can be activated if the regular boot process got broken. This recovery Flash should never need to be changed, so making it easy to do so isn't a particularly high priority. (As in "soldering iron" instead of "switch".) Our current hardware doesn't allow Flash protection to be done sensibly :-( So software/user input can in fact brick a machine to the point where the only recovery possible is through JTAG, e.g., with the debug board. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community