Re: Which Debian package contains flashwrite?
[Ralph Siemsen]
> Well as it happens I wrote a manpage for flashwrite... feel free to
> include it...
Thanks. I've submitted that as well, including the following patch:
- fix typo
- create nwflash device using mode 0600
--- flashwrite.8.orig Mon Mar 11 12:45:45 2002
+++ flashwrite.8 Mon Mar 11 12:45:58 2002
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
.SH DESCRIPTION
This program is used to program the Flash memory (a.k.a. firmware) on a
NetWinder. The JTAG boundary-scan feature is (ab)used to open a short
-window of time during which the flash memory is writable (this fauture is
+window of time during which the flash memory is writable (this feature is
intended to make accidental flash erasure more difficult). Since the window
is very narrow, any unexpected interrupts or other "diversions" may cause
the process to fail, leaving the flash memory corrupted. The flash driver
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@
.I /dev/nwflash
device node; it can be created with the command
.TP
-.I mknod -m666 /dev/nwflash c 10 160
+.I mknod -m600 /dev/nwflash c 10 160
.PP
The optional string
.B flashdebug=1
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