diff CHANGES @ 642:44bc757ce2a5

CHANGES: binary dump transfer
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:11:52 +0000
parents fa8e197a1d9b
children 2d5d1ca58b2a
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 Changes in the current code since fc-host-tools-r12:
 
+* fc-loadtool memory dump commands (dump2bin and dump2srec) have been
+  reimplemented using loadagent's new BINDUMP command, sending the dump stream
+  from the target to the host in binary format instead of hex.  This change
+  speeds up the dump transfer time by a little over 2x.
+
 * All loadtools programs: the step of feeding the IRAM code image to the
   Calypso boot ROM has been sped up by about 700 ms by grouping contiguous
   S-record payloads into larger blocks (up to the boot ROM limit of 1014 bytes