[OLPC-devel] just verified: 2306 + olpc + linux kernel works.

[David Woodhouse]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 21:06 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> The flash on the iPAQ had bits you could set that would write protect
> sectors of the flash (does the NAND flash we have have similar
> capabilities?  I dunno). That meant you couldn't write from Linux
> without first unprotecting those sectors 

We don't have that facility.

An option which others have taken is to put two copies of the bootstrap
code into partitions in the flash, and have a failover mechanism so that
one can be updated while leaving the other intact. Even if we don't want
to update a live system, that fallback mechanism can perhaps be a useful
safety net for us.

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dwmw2