I was thinking of the NOR flash as a backup if everithing goes wrong. If
you flashed the NAND with a new bootloader and it fails you maybe
couldn't start the bootloader from NAND anymore.
But you always could boot from NOR flash because you couldn't/didn't
reflash this bootloader.
Maybe i'm totaly wrong about the duty of the NOR flash, but this is what
i think of it. It is the life belt if you swim too far out of the NAND
flashing sea. :)
Ciao,
Rainer
Tilman Baumann wrote:
What is the NOR flash used for in Freerunner?
I don't know if it is worth it, but i always wanted to have a execution
in place memory scheme on my embedded devices.
There it is: http://axfs.sourceforge.net/
Only makes sense in NOR (the XIP part). But maybe we can speed up things
(and save RAM) by putting some base system stuff in NOR with a XIP scheme?
Problem, i have no idea what the NOR part is used for in Freerunners.
Maybe it is all not worth talking about. :)
PS: I accidentally sent this mail from my other account. The list did
not take it.
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