Hardware flash write protection¶
The hardware flash write protection driver (fprotect) can be used to protect flash areas from writing.
The driver uses a hardware peripheral (BPROT, ACL, or SPU, depending on the chip model) to protect the area.
The protection is irreversible until a reset occurs.
The following example shows how to protect PM_B0_SIZE bytes of the flash area starting from PM_B0_ADDRESS:
int err = fprotect_area(PM_B0_ADDRESS, PM_B0_SIZE);
API documentation¶
include/fprotect.hlib/fprotect/-
group
fprotect API for write protection of flash areas using Hardware peripheral.
Functions
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int
fprotect_area(uint32_t start, size_t length)¶ Protect flash area against writes.
- Parameters
start – [in] Start of range to protect.
length – [in] Length in bytes of range to protect.
- Returns 0
On success.
- Returns -EINVAL
If any of the argument are incorrect.
- Returns -EFAULT
If the protection was not applied properly.
- Returns -ENOSPC
If function is called too many times. Applies to devices where there is a limited number of configuration registers which are used for all address ranges.
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int