Devel Digest, Vol 45, Issue 30

[Mitch Bradley]

Richard Smith wrote:

> Is it possible to turn the .zd scheme into the same FEC scheme so that 
> fs-update and nandblaster use the same source stream? I know that adds 
> a lot of additional overhead in the non-lossy channel case but even if 
> it results in a slowdown in the fs-update case it might be a win over 
> all. 

Actually, the overhead might not be so bad.  Look at the second entry in 
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nandblaster_for_XO-1.5#Comments where I 
describe how that might work and estimate the implications.