newRPL: [UPDATED April 27-2017] Firmware for testing available for download

[Claudio L.]

(09-06-2015 04:39 PM)DavidM Wrote:  Good to know! Did I miss that in the docs somewhere? I don't recall seeing it. It's OK if it's not (I understand the current status of things), but I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing something.

Not on the docs, just above in this thread.

(09-06-2015 04:39 PM)DavidM Wrote:  Is it possible that the status of the RTC could be a part of this? Or possibly something in RAM (not flash)? I don't recall ever seeing this type of issue with other firmware updates. Just a thought.

Much of the interaction between the boot loader and the actual firmware is undocumented. I disassembled the start of the boot loader after a reset and there is very minimal configuration before passing control to the firmware, so it should never crash after a reset. At least in theory. NewRPL tries to reconfigure everything as if the bootloader wasn't there. But there might be unknown hardware wirings that require specific configurarion, it's still an unfinished task.