Yes this is an Motorola's S-Record File. Do you think that I am missing something?. I am using YAMON to configure the UART's settings on the board and HyperTerminal on the Host the transfer this file. ADEEL -----Original Message----- From: Pete Popov [mailto:ppopov@mvista.com] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 8:45 PM To: Adeel Malik Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: How to increase download speed for UART On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 08:32, Adeel Malik wrote: > Hi All, > I am porting Linux to a MIPS based development platform. The > UART on the board provides a maximum baud rate of 115 kbps. But the > download time for the kernel Image of about 4.3 MB is about 4 hours > !!!!!. 4.3MB? Is this an SREC file? I've downloaded images over the serial port (srec files) and it takes no more than 10 minutes. Pete > Can someone help me address this problem ?. > > (I can't download the kernel image via tftp server using ethernet, as > the CPU doesn't have the MAC interface). > > Regards, > ADEEL MALIK, > >