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On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Kekoa Proudfoot wrote:
> This only matters when downloading firmware files to the RCX. For example,
> if LegOS is now set up so only the kernel is loaded as firmware, that
> kernel is less than 19K, and everything else is loaded as a
> dynamically-linked program after the fact, then this update doesn't affect
> anything. If user programs can be statically linked with the kernel and
> those can exceed 19K, this does matter.
Actually, the kernel can hit 21-22K (depending on the compile-time
options.) My current legOS.srec sits at 21232 bytes. So, I'm going to do
the update.
Luis (sort of wishing that Markus had not made so many little changes to
firmdl)
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| (...) Isn't the actual size of the kernal about half the .srec size? That file contains ascii codes for for hex bytes, a pair of characters would be one byte. Rossz (24 years ago, 20-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Following a discussion on lugnet.robotics on firmware versions and firmware checksumming, I realized firmdl3 was broken for the latest firmware files (firm0325.lgo and firm0328.lgo). The problem was these files were too big. I have modified firmdl3 (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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