Restart problems after writing to mtdblock?
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Sat Nov 30 11:22:39 EST 2002
paulnash at wildseed.com said:
> Power fail is not a concern -- this only occurs in the case of a
> software reboot of the chip without power loss. An external reset is
> not an issue. Flash chips don't store state as to their last read mode
> across power failure anyway.
I wouldn't swear to that. You could feasibly have a power outage long
enough to reset most of the board, but the flash chips don't draw much
power and could perhaps retain their state.
Unlikely perhaps, but I wouldn't declare it impossible.
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dwmw2
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