On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:06:53PM +0200, ChristianH wrote: > Why is it so important to load the firmware? > > Do they put in an extra light firmware at the factory, in order to keep > shipping weights low? <gr> to keep shipping weights rather low, they put in NO firmware in some hardware (just a loader). firmware is included with the driver and required to be uploaded to the device on every initialization or at least after every power on. > Or is it just that they are actually continuously working on it after > product release? (which may be a good thing - unless a product is rushed might be the idea behind that, and that the user doesn't need to go for the risky step of flashing the thing (and sending the half-flashed device back and complaining etc.) bests, martin
