Lpc2000

Hi Guile,

I found a number of things broken in the boot loader.  These have stopped 
me (and from the posts here, a lot of others) from doing what they should 
be able to do.

I stay away from being critical of design choices made by whoever 
implemented the boot loader.  However when things are broken and this 
interferes with operational aspects of the boot loader, I call it as I see it.

* The boot loader is critical to CRP but you can crash it at will even when 
CRP is enabled.

* The flash algorithms in the boot loader are not implemented properly and 
cause problems, including corruption boot loader itself.

The work-around is to replace the boot loader.  One can understand why 
Philips objects to open source boot loader given product selection appears 
to be based on what the boot loader does on startup.

Someone suggested I should give up on open source boot loader project and 
just concentrate on providing custom boot loaders for people who need one 
... and I have taken this advice onboard.

Regards,

Jaya

>Message: 7
>    Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:56:04 -0000
>    From: "Guillermo Prandi" <yahoo.messenger@...>
>Subject: Re: trashed 2148 bootloader
>
>Hi, Jayasooriah.
>I too would like to hear about your findings.
>If you'd just post your findings in cold objective words instead of
>making misterious announces I doubt anybody would have anything to
>criticize. Anyway, if they do, it's their problem. Please just post
>what you've found (avoiding offending wording like "completely
>broken", "piece of crap" and things like that) and any workarounds
>you may have developed for it and I'll be really GLAD to read about
>it.
>
>Guille

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