Re: HDHomeRun firmware downgrades

[AZ Nomad <aznomad.2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 28 Sep 2007 13:33:02 GMT, phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


>In alt.tv.tech.hdtv Dan Lanciani <ddl@danlan.*com> wrote:

>| Sometime after the version of firmware that I'm currently running
>| (20070131) SiliconDust has apparently added a lock to the HDHomeRun
>| to prevent the loading of firmware older than the current version.
>| Can anyone who has been following the versions tell me the latest
>| version I can load without being locked in?  SiliconDust won't say.
>| This lock makes it impossible to back out an upgrade if there are
>| application compatibility problems.

>It may be the case that, due to the firmware image becoming larger, that
>the old firmware format was insufficient for anticipated future firware.
>So perhaps what they have done is inserted a new firmware loader in the
>last release under the old format, and committed to using the new format
>thereafter.

Are you insane?  Think about some plausable numbers:  24K loader;  1000K
firmware.  Do you think you're going to slim down the loader enough to
make it worth the trouble?  Squeeze down the loader 25% and you've only
made 0.8% more available for firmware.

no
fucking
way.