From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 827 invoked by alias); 25 May 2004 13:52:16 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-discuss-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org Received: (qmail 808 invoked from network); 25 May 2004 13:52:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.chez-thomas.org) (63.225.98.241) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 25 May 2004 13:52:14 -0000 Received: by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 2000) id CA41810000B; Tue, 25 May 2004 07:52:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5C910000A; Tue, 25 May 2004 07:52:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Gary Thomas To: Jani Monoses Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20040525132520.120a6a4b.jani@iv.ro> References: <20040525132520.120a6a4b.jani@iv.ro> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MLB Associates Message-Id: <1085493130.19799.1218.camel@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:16:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on hermes.chez-thomas.org Subject: Re: [ECOS] fis dir and fconfig data X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00293.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 04:25, Jani Monoses wrote: > Hello > > is there a reason for CYGSEM_REDBOOT_FLASH_COMBINED_FIS_AND_CONFIG not being > the only option, so no option actually? Are there any advantages to storing > the two types of data in different flash blocks? Yes. For example, one might want to have a *lot* of config data (RedBoot exports these access functions, so it is common for applications to use this as well). In this case, the config data and the FIS directory might not fit in a single block. Similarly, when FLASH blocks are small. There are many good reasons to have such flexibility, at a small cost of compile-time complexity. -- Gary Thomas MLB Associates -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss