> > SREC: (I am not much sure) It seems an old format used > mostly by motorola. > > It's like BIN format, but has other information used for > downloading. It seems > > some bootloaders need SREC format for downloading. > > > > SREC is more or less the same as a BIN file but it has an address and > checksum so it would be much smaller if you want to put a > byte at 0 and > one at 100000 and you can be sure that is is correctly transfered.
A big difference is that SREC is full ascii, which means lots of bytes of overhead, which means longer transfer times if you're loading via rs232. Erik ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
