Hi Wolfgang, On Monday 08 June 2009 12:25:01 Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > This is needed for the upcoming esd MECP5123 board port which uses I2C > > EEPROM for environment storage. > > Stefan, please check if this is really what you want to do. > Environmentin EEPROM is *strongly* discouraged. It is slow like hell, > and even more unreliable. Do *not* do this. Check if you can use any > other storage - NOR or NAND flash, or the like.
I know that EEPROM has some disadvantages. But this is not my choice but the customers (esd) decision. esd has used I2C EEPROM for environment storage for a long time and even included write-protection to the EEPROM. Best regards, Stefan ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list [email protected] http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
