Re: Programming an Image into flash

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I take your point that MS is concerned primarily with interaction with PB,
however they must have more than a vested interest in getting production
systems out there, and making it as easy as possible for developers to
accomplish this.

Anyway I am going to work on the flashing of NK.BIN, in fact its not so
different from Download image in blcommon.c now I have studied that more
carefully, I am quite happy to post the source of this module once
completed, is there an attachments group designed to take such submissions?

Regards

Martin

> Location information is not contained in the nb0 file, while it is in the
> .bin file. Your thought of programming the .bin file directly is probably
> the best approach, as it will likely be smaller and also give you the
> addressing information you need. Downside is that it will take slightly
> longer to load into RAM at boot since you will be decoding records instead
> of doing a straight copy.
>
> There are a few boot methods in the various BSPs, including booting from
> hard disk in the CEPC. None of the BSPs MS provided have a boot from
> flash option this time around, I think the Lubbock did in 4.2. Remember
> that MS is primarily focused on a development bootloader, not a production
> one. Therefore, MS is focusing on being able to interact with Platform
> Builder. Typically a production loader will have many different
> requirements.
>
>


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