From: [IDC]Dragon <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:43:25 +0100 (MET)

> SOME jukeboxes come with FLASHable chips (ROM), if you are lucky, you can
> also/instead place Rockbox firmware in the chip for super-fast
> startup. Because the flash chips are twice as big as required, you can
> hold two firmwares in the chip, and select the 'other' one by holding a
> button as you power up.

Minor correction: the chip is not quite twice as big, but we compress the
firmware to about half the size. My bootloader decompresses this on startup
into the normal place in RAM.

Jörg

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Received on 2004-03-15