Thanks Vasi... Vasi suggested a PICKIT2 clone which may be a good solution for me, but I would still like to see a bootloader. Anyways, I guess it's up to you guys since I don't know ASM.
Matt On Nov 28, 4:01 pm, mattschinkel <[email protected]> wrote: > > It'll certainly take more memory then highly optimised ASM code (like Tiny > > Bootloader). > > Jalv2 allows ASM code with: assembler...end assembler, could this be a > solution? > > The point to me is that we should not have to use another bootloader, > we should use and support our own that works on a veriety of PIC's. As > some say, there are disadvantages to bootloaders, can we overcome > whaterver disadavantages they are? I'm sure there must be a way to > reduce the chance of overwriting a bootloader. Why is there a jallib > USB bootloader but not a serial bootloader? > > I'm not sure of the price of the Jaluino board, but if a programmer > was not required for it, a lot more people would be interested. > > I know someone whom would like to try PIC's, he doesn't have much cash > to get started so I was thinking about programming a bootloader onto a > PIC for him. A PIC with a bootloader programmed would do the trick. > Also people like me whom have an older programmer would be able to get > a pre-programmed PIC with bootloader. Even new programmers are not > able to program them all. > > I wish I could get a PIC like PIC18F97J60 with a bootloader, I see no > programmers around that can program a PIC like this but if someone was > able to put a bootloader on it for me I might buy it. I would not care > how large the bootloader is on a huge PIC like this. This is the kind > of PIC I would love to see on development boards. > > I tried to compile tiny bootloader with the current version of MPLAB > and it didn't compile. I am assuming it needs MPLAB 6, but I can't > find it anyways. > > A jalv2 bootloader would have it's advantages. > > Matt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en.
