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List:       u-boot
Subject:    [U-Boot-Users] Redundant environment and saveenv
From:       wd () denx ! de (Wolfgang Denk)
Date:       2005-04-26 13:03:20
Message-ID: 20050426130325.4A208C1510 () atlas ! denx ! de
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In message <00bc01c54a58$b347c5d0$1000000a at araavanesyan> you wrote:
> 
> I have enabled a redundant environment and my two environments reside in two
> different sectors in flash. Everything works perfectly, except seems there
> is a problem in saveenv command:

Which type of problem?

> it writes a char to (ulong)&(flash_addr->flags), but this sector was never
> erased.

Yes, this is intentional. It's marking the old environment sector  as
obsolete.

> am i missing something here?

I don't know. Where exactly is your problem? You don;t have to  erase
flash to be able to write to it.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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