[Empeg-technical] Re: download.c and serial programming

[mlord@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

the download.c code has always been hit/miss.  I believe there's a timing issue involved somewhere.  Sometimes it works on Linux, sometimes it fails on a different machine with otherwise identical software.  Ditto for windows.

And especially ditto for the Linux upgclient, which does not work at all on my newer laptop, but works on all of my other machines.  It is based on the same code as in download.c

Someday I suppose I'll rev-eng the protocol and write a replacement or something, one that will also work with a Hijack kernel on DC-power.

Cheers