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Re: Re: Limit region of flash used by RedBoot for FIS?
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 08:51:04AM -0600, Grant Edwards wrote:
> In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:
>
> >> I found CYGNUM_REDBOOT_FLASH_RESERVED_BASE which specifies a
> >> reserved area that the bottom of flash, but I can't find a CDL
> >> option that reserves space at the top of flash. Care to give
> >> me a hint?
> >
> > CYGNUM_REDBOOT_FIS_DIRECTORY_BLOCK - default value is (-1) which
> > puts the FIS directory in the last erase block of the device.
> > Just set it to -(N+1), where N is the number of erase blocks that
> > you don't want RedBoot to touch.
>
> Ah. Thanks. It wasn't apparent (at least to me) from the
> documentation for that option that anything beyond that block
> would be untouched. It might be good to add that useful bit of
> info to the comment for that option.
Im not actually sure this is true. I suggest you look carefully at the
code before you accidental stomp over your top 1Mbyte. In fact a quick
examination of fis_init() suggests it does erase after the end of the
cfg/fis blocks.
Andrew
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