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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Jerry Kirk <jkirk865@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Write Protect Error re-flashing /dev/nor0.barebox
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:45:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120926214515.GT1322@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20120926T210129-125@post.gmane.org>

Hi Jerry,

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 07:07:32PM +0000, Jerry Kirk wrote:
> We are updating from 2012-03 to 2012-09 and after flashing our SOM
> (Phytec PCM043 - imx35) we starting getting this error:
> 
> barebox:/ erase /dev/nor0.barebox
>                                      
> erase: Operation not permitted
> 
> It worked the first time, when overwriting the 2012-03 image and booted, etc.
> We have tried a few intermediate Barebox versions and think it worked up to 2012-
> 07.
> 
> Any ideas what we now need to do to be able to overwrite Barebox?

I think you are the victim of a bug fix ;)

You probably registered the partition readonly. (see the 'ro'
flag in the mtdparts variable). Since some releases barebox
actually honors this flag:

commit a4fde70067b6113fd9dc7a4295ebd3f55b756db6
Author: Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Mon Jun 25 14:03:27 2012 +0200

    fs/devfs.c: disallow write and erase if a partition is read-only
    
    Signed-off-by: Jan Luebbe <jlu@pengutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-26 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-26 19:07 Jerry Kirk
2012-09-26 19:10 ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2012-09-26 19:24   ` Jerry Kirk
2012-09-26 21:45 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2012-09-28 11:51   ` Jerry Kirk

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