RE: [iPAQ] IMPORTANT: don't use /dev/flash6

Doesn't the SA1110 have a bootstrap mode for booting from a UART? I don't
like hearing about people iPAQs being useless, when it seems like the system
should have other ways to bootstap and load a bootloader program. The
Dragonball 68328 series (Palm processor) has a UART bootstrap mode, is there
nothing similar for SA?

Chris McFarlen
chrismc@fastlane.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipaq-admin@handhelds.org [mailto:ipaq-admin@handhelds.org]On
> Behalf Of Nicolas Pitre
> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:42 AM
> To: David Woodhouse
> Cc: Jim Gettys; ipaq@handhelds.org
> Subject: Re: [iPAQ] IMPORTANT: don't use /dev/flash6
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> >
> > jg@pa.dec.com said:
> > > So flash6 on 16 meg units wraps at 16 megabytes since the flash part
> > > does not decode the high order bit, and he therefore overwrote the
> > > bootloader, making his iPAQ useless.
> >
> > Cute. I had this happen to me too, albeit on different hardware
> - that's why
> > I wrote the alias detection code for CFI compliant chips. Could the
> > mtdbitsy driver be rewritten as a 'map' using the existing CFI code?
>
> I think Bitsy is using my block flash driver which would fully benefit
> from being ported into the MTD stuff, indeed. However it would be nice to
> do it so other SA1100 designs out there could use the same driver.
>
>
> Nicolas
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Received on Wed Aug 23 10:32:53 2000