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Old 04-07-2008, 05:01 PM   #13
delphidb96
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
There may not be any of the reader's functionality in a firmware. The "firmware" may be only the embedded linux OS... or maybe even not and the "firmware" is only BIOS.

(In other words it may more follow the PC model than the TiVO model.)

BOb
The firmware contains it all. Well, let me rephrase that. If one gets the update which is larger than 9MB, it contains EVERYTHING. But an update of 5MB or less, just contains that part of the firmware that is changing. The OS an app, combined, are quite small-footprint.

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