On 3/07/07 9:10 AM, "Doug Franklin", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> It can be in read-only memory, and in that case you can't upgrade it, if
> that's all that's available.

Yes, of course :-). My stupid.

> More often what you'll have is some memory
> that's read-only and some that's read-write.  The read-write memory
> contains the actual operational code for the camera and you can upgrade
> it.  The read-only part contains the basic bootstrap loader and utility
> functions (like update the read-write memory) so they can't get messed
> up in an upgrade and you can always change the upgradeable firmware in
> the read-write part if something goes wrong.

Makes sense, thank you.

Ken


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