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Well the upgrade message is certainly the same so this is not such a silly statement.


No. Fair point. I was being a bit curt (I apologise). Let me clarify:

The Receiver does contain a flash programmer that is very similar to the one in the empeg.

However, it wasn't actually designed to be used for programming the flash, for the reasons that tman gives.

The kernel in flash was never meant to be upgraded -- it double-boots into another kernel that's downloaded from the server -- this one is meant to be upgradable.

Now, we did have to use it at one point -- when the Dell receivers were rebadged, we had to change the boot logo. Mike would know more about this, but he doesn't hang out here much any more.
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