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CHANGES: first change since fc-host-tools-r12
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sun, 01 Mar 2020 05:51:45 +0000
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+Changes in the current code since fc-host-tools-r12:
+
+* 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
+  per block) instead of sending each S-record payload (30 bytes typically) as
+  its own write command.
+
 Changes from fc-host-tools-r11 to fc-host-tools-r12:
 
 * To facilitate objective comparison of loadtools performance between what the