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doc/Loadtools-performance: removed the section about SREC programming
With our current fc-loadtool there is no difference in performance between
different flash programming commands, and the explanation of binary vs.
S-record issues has been moved to the new Binary-file-formats and
Flash-programming articles.
author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Sun, 08 Mar 2020 22:56:31 +0000 |
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The present libprintf is a very light printf implementation that is well-suited for simple bare-metal programs like loadagent; in the present case it overrides the much heavier printf implementation in newlib. Programs like the present loadagent only need printf in order to scribble on the serial console port, and the most sensible implementation is to have the "character output" function from the guts of printf point directly to the physical UART output routine, or a trivial wrapper that turns \n into \r\n. In contrast, newlib's version would pull in the complete FILE table infrastructure and malloc etc - maybe OK for more complex embedded programs that use those facilities for other things under a bona fide RTOS, but it would be disgusting to pull that stuff in for a minimal program like ours. The present printf implementation has been used earlier by the same author (Michael Spacefalcon) in the StarMON family of PowerPC bootloaders, and in my MC68x302-based SDSL CPE devices (Hack-o-Rocket and OSDCU).