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From: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 20:17:27 +0300
Subject: [U-Boot] [mips][cfi] Unable to write into flash under qemu
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On 5 July 2016 at 20:05, Daniel Schwierzeck
<daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Am 05.07.2016 um 18:50 schrieb Alon Bar-Lev:
>> Thank you so much!
>> Erase does not complain any more.
>
> please do not top-quote on a mailing list.
>

Sorry.

>>
>> However, write is not working.
>>
>> Result is always something like:
>> be040000: 00800080 00800080 00800080 00800080    ................
>
> hm, I can't reproduce that:
>
> $ qemu-system-mips -M malta -cpu 24Kc -m 256 -nographic -drive if=pflash,file=/work/u-boot-mips/pflash.bin,format=raw -netdev user,id=ubtest,tftp=/work/u-boot-mips -device pcnet,netdev=ubtest
>
> malta # md BE040000 4
> be040000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff    ................
> malta # erase BE040000 +10000
>
> . done
> Erased 1 sectors
> malta # md BE040000 4
> be040000: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff    ................


Can you please try to copy from sector in flash to another as I've shown?
It seems to happen especially in this case.
Maybe it is just impossible...

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