On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:06:53PM +0200, ChristianH wrote:
Why is it so important to load the firmware?
Do they put in an extra light firmware at the factory, in order to keep
shipping weights low? <gr>
to keep shipping weights rather low, they put in NO firmware in some
hardware (just a loader). firmware is included with the driver and
required to be uploaded to the device on every initialization or at
least after every power on.
Or is it just that they are actually continuously
working on it after
product release? (which may be a good thing - unless a product is rushed
might be the idea behind that, and that the user doesn't need to go
for the risky step of flashing the thing (and sending the half-flashed
device back and complaining etc.)
bests,
martin