8 Oct
2012
8 Oct
'12
4:08 a.m.
Jason White wrote:
The user might, for example, overwrite and corrupt the boot loader and whatever software is needed to install an OS image on the device, rendering it useless.
As long as the software needed to load an image remains intact then one should be able to recover from a failed copying operation or a bad image, though.
On a tegra2, at least, the bootloader is bakend into a ROM and you cannot blow it away. Of course, that can probably only load from the eMMC, so if you managed to used up all your writes on the eMMC you'd no longer be able to chainload e.g. u-boot off the eMMC in order to boot off an SD or USB key, which would effectively brick it.