Lpc2000

At 06:22 AM 12/20/05 +0000, jayasooriah wrote:
>Referring to the boot loader supplied as monster is SPAM?  Really?

Blame my hosting provider, They've added some sort of filter recently and 
the false positive rate is unreasonably high.  I try to remove them from 
the subject line before posting.  Obviously I missed one.  Sigh.

>What I meant to say is that I do not like Philips boot loader because
>it takes up 8K (too big for what it does) had an inconvenient method
>for loading programs, so cumbersome that Philips had to provide boot
>flash loading utility which in itself is too big for what it does.

Gee, I found it one of the more convenient ones.  You should try the ST10 
loader sometime :)  I prefer a command line based utility myself, and since 
one exists I'm quite happy.  As for those that download Intel Hex files, 
they've given me more grief than the Philips loader ever has.  As far as 
using 8K, none of that block is available to me anyway so whether it's 8 
bytes or 8K I can't tell the difference so why should I care?

>The boot loader also trashes memory at locations I least expected.

Details?  I haven't run into this sort of behaviour so I'm kind of curious 
as to what you've seen.

>I prefer my own loader (written in C, under 4K as 32-bit code, smaller
>as 16-bit code), requires no more than Intel format hex files a simple
>terminal emulator (Minicom, Hyperterm, etc) for downloading. You need
>only copy and paste hex records onto the terminal emulator window to
>download code into RAM (or FLASH) and run it.

I don't like this sort of behaviour myself, but strokes for folks.

Robert

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