Power blackouts and brownouts

[David Schleef]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:34:32PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> Note that 'well designed embedded systems' does _not_ include the Intel
> Assabet platform. I believe nothing ever asserts the flash reset line, so if
> you reset while the flash is in a mode other than read mode, the CPU's reset
> vector is pointing at status words :)

This is also a problem for soft-reset.  (Been there, dont that.)
That's why the Sharp chip driver always puts the chips into read
mode after checking the status.  I believe at least one of the
other chip drivers don't do this.



dave...



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