At 03:08 PM 3/25/2011, Olin Lathrop wrote:

>However, what does this have to do with the bootloader doing word versus
>page writes?

 From an earlier message from the Original Poster:

>My boot-loader inter-operates with the application. When the application
>receives packets that are for the boot-loader, it calls a function
>inside the boot-loader which saves the packet. When the boot-loader
>receives the last packet and validates the firmware, it doesn't return
>to the application and does the real programming.

In other words, his boot-loader is responsible for saving the new=20
firmware to scratchpad FLASH as it received.  That requires word writes.

dwayne

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