Some flash parts have a WP* pin that "protects" the flash boot sectors only. Often, designers will wire that input to a discrete that can be controlled by software.
Greg Griffes Smiths Aerospace ----- Original Message ----- From: "None Atall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wolfgang Denk" <wd at denx.de> Cc: "Bruno Coudoin" <bcoudoin at anfora.fr>; "linuxppc-embedded" <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Raven Cop 8260 Utility > > We have tried it to. We have reached the conclution > that perhaps the specific flash has a hardware > problem. > Not even the startup monitor that BlueCat distributes > could be writen into flash. I couldn't ether make > ppcboot write into flash. Really strange. But it > doesn't realy matters, since I found at least one way > to run ppcboot. :) > > Thanks > D. Meidanis ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
