Isaac Marino Bavaresco wrote:
> The boot-loader is not yet finished but I did some tests in the real
> hardware today, and they show that the word-programming works.

I have done bootloaders for dsPIC parts.  These have to erase a whole erase
block at a time.  My bootloaders then write whole write blocks within each
erase block.  So far that seems to have worked without incident.  I don't
see why a bootloader would want to write individual words.

I think that could wear out the flash faster too.  It's possible that each
word write effects the whole write block.  If a write block is 32 words in
size, then writing each word individually may stress the flash as if the
whole block were written 32 times.  I don't know if this is true, but I can
certainly see how it could be.

Again, word writes don't make much sense for a bootloader.


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