Greg Erskine wrote: > The point I am trying to make is there is no firmware/boot software on > the actual Raspberry Pi PCB itself, it is all loaded from the SD card > when booting.
No, there is a first stage boot loader in ROM. It is needed to load software from the SD card. > When I was a boy, firmware was software permanently loaded onto > hardware, ie ROMs or EPROMs. Now its all RAM with battery or capacitor > backup and writeable. These days non-volatile RAM is mostly flash memory, not (battery- or capacitor-backed) SRAM. "To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a solid gilt edge that will fool many people" - Paul W Klipsch, 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104698 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
