Yes, I'm thinking of the possibility of the application trashing the
boot code.

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[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Emerson
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Subject: Re: [PIC:] PIC 18F programmer circuit/software?

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:37:39PM -0000, Peter Moreton wrote:
> Yes, bootloaders are neat and quite 'kewl', but I worry that someone
> might manage to overwrite the bootloader code, and end up with a
> non-working board.

Surely the bootloader doesn't have to allow overwriting itself.  Or do
you mean the application code might go mad and overwrite the bootloader?

Chris

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