Hi Rob, hi guys,
> > You didn't react on my argument for a PC program. I admit when I heard > about bootloaders for the first time I had the impression these were > self-supporting, but in fact these things require a dedicated support > program to work. > > So what you want sounds as re-inventing the wheel. Tiny Bootloader would > fit here nicely. > I agree 100%. I've always used Tiny, and never had any problem (except when I forget long-start option...). Bootloader never gets overwritten. I've compiled a version for Jaluino, it works perfectly. About PC program, do you think, Rob, it would be possible to "re-activate" the application you wrote for Tiny ? I'd like a cross-platform program I could integrate with a complete IDE, for Jaluino. I tried Tinybld in python, it works, but Reset-via-RTS behavior is kind of erratic in last version. I would need to fix few things, but I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to start from your app to get a clean, cross-platform version. It may be too early related to Jaluino development, as I still don't know which IDE would fit the best... Cheers, Seb > > > > 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. > > That may be true. > In fact that is a situation comparable to where I use a bootloader in > one of my projects. I want to be able to let a PIC program be replaced > by anyone, without the need for a PIC programmer, only a cable and a > piece of PC software (the bootloader support program). > > > > 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. > > Chicken and egg problem: no programmer which can load the bootloader > then no need for a bootloader. > > > 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. > > Agreed. > > > > 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. > > GPASM of the GPutils package works fine for me. > > > A jalv2 bootloader would have it's advantages. > > Depends what how you define a 'JalV2 bootloader' exactly. When you get > to know more about bootloaders your opinion may change. > > Regards, Rob. > > -- > Rob Hamerling, Vianen, NL (http://www.robh.nl/) > > -- > > 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]<jallib%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en. > > > -- Sébastien Lelong http://www.sirloon.net http://sirbot.org -- 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.
