pruss
04-22-2003, 07:58 PM
Is it possible for a buggy program to unlock the "ROM" flash and erase it, thereby completely destroying the NX, or is there a real bootloader ROM which can be used to re-flash the OS if necessary? If it's possible, has it actually ever happened?
I ask because my previous unit was a Sharp 700 series organizer where, technically, this was possible (and actually happened to two developers). It would be necessary for a specific sequence to get written to the flash controller, and this would be unlikely to happen completely at random, but it could happen with out-of-control code that happens to jump to some bad place in the OS.
Alex
I ask because my previous unit was a Sharp 700 series organizer where, technically, this was possible (and actually happened to two developers). It would be necessary for a specific sequence to get written to the flash controller, and this would be unlikely to happen completely at random, but it could happen with out-of-control code that happens to jump to some bad place in the OS.
Alex