[Trac #185] Need better SPI FLASH recovery procedure

[Duncan Patton a Campbell]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:26:07 -0000
"Zarro Boogs per Child" <bugtracker at laptop.org> wrote:

> That would get it down to about a minute, plus the time it
>  takes for the serial downloader to do the rest (about half a minute).
> 
>  If we needed to, we could go even faster.  The serial line speed
>  limitation is not in the EC, but rather in the host PC, whose baud rate
>  tops out at 115200.  I have a couple of little tester boxes that I build
>  in my previous job that can run a serial line at 500K.  They run Forth, so
>  the code I have written so far would "just work" on them.
> 
> -- 

Given the intended users a fast and reliable way to de-brick these
seems like a good idea, and using forth fits with the constructivist
model for a comprehensible loader mechanism.  Forth has been around
long enough that you'll be able to get field support most places.

Dhu
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