Jerry Van Baren wrote:
Arrgh, I forgot about the 8260 master + 7 slaves mode, which fills the first 256 bytes with HRCWs. As a result, we cannot put the magic number and version at offset 0x40 like I did with the 8360 (well, we could do it, but only if the system doesn't have slaves). We could, however, put the magic number and version in a different vector area that has room (e.g. offset 0x240).
Or, you could tag the version string with a checksum and a signature, then have the application scan memory until it finds it. That way, you could put it wherever you want, even in different places on different systems, and it would still work.
Joakim asked me to ack or nack this patch, but at this point I can't tell who wants what. Can someone summarize the status of this patch for me?