# HG changeset patch # User Mychaela Falconia # Date 1583184514 0 # Node ID 2d5d1ca58b2aa3f6b8f089c6b08d061188c36118 # Parent d42534e5ac029ee7fc5d7257271534ac9e74ab4f CHANGES: fc-xram binary protocol diff -r d42534e5ac02 -r 2d5d1ca58b2a CHANGES --- a/CHANGES Mon Mar 02 03:49:31 2020 +0000 +++ b/CHANGES Mon Mar 02 21:28:34 2020 +0000 @@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ 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. +* fc-xram uses the new binary protocol to transfer the user's XRAM image to the + target, producing a speed increase of 3.5x to 5x for the most common use + cases. + * 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