What is an FPF file?

"There is a new "Front Panel Flash" (FPF) loader required to
load a new "Front Panel Flash" file that will be part of
the new firmware."

What is a FPF loader?  What does it do?

Lee - K0WA




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[Dick Dievendorff]

It's a  "Front Panel Flash" memory device that's present on the same Front
Panel board that carries the MCU.

Wayne has now started to use that memory, offloading some data that used to
be in the MCU's memory space to another device.

The FPF loader sends a file from your PC to that memory (using a new
capability of the MCU).

Dick, K6KR

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"There is a new "Front Panel Flash" (FPF) loader required to
load a new "Front Panel Flash" file that will be part of
the new firmware."

What is a FPF loader?  What does it do?

Lee - K0WA




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don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it.  If you
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Sense.  Is Common Sense divine?
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[KK7P]

> What is a FPF loader?  What does it do?

The K3 has a large chunk of Flash memory on the Front Panel board, hence
the term Front Panel Flash (FPF).

The new K3 Utility is able to load data into the FPF.  The upcoming
firmware release makes use of this memory for the first time.

Who knows, there may be other gems buried in the hardware that the
software will someday exercise :-)

73,

Lyle KK7P



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