Making Neo Brickproof, was comments after reading Wiki

[Emre Turkay]

Hi folks,
I would strongly support putting a no-way-writable ROM chip as this first
level boot loader. If there is no such option, I really wonder what is my
option if somehow it gets screwed up, other than  the trash can? Is there an
always working solution to reset my moko?

Emre Turkay

On 5/17/07, Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org> wrote:
>
> Simon Matthews wrote:
> > It seems to me as someone who designs and makes embedded devices (mainly
> > using the Freescale MC9S12 processors) that you need another lower level
> > bootstrap loader that is small,
>
> Ah yes, we've been through that idea as well :-)
>
> We rejected it, because we don't want to have yet more code
> duplicating functionality found elsewhere to maintain. Besides, it
> wouldn't be all that trivial, given that we don't have any "simple"
> interfaces. (Anything that needs a debug board or other fancy
> adapters doesn't count.)
>
> Also, there really isn't much difference between a few protected
> bytes or hundreds of protected kilobytes. We need an extra chip
> anyway, and if we want something reasonably small and modern, it'll
> have plenty of space. Thus there's no penalty in using it.
>
> But yes, the "small loader" approach works well enough in other
> contexts. I've used it myself.
>
> - Werner
>
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