RTEMS with post-boot code.

[Eric Norum]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> But if I understand right, the original idea was just to put as
> much in ROM as possible to minimize downloads. If something gets
> trashed, a reset will bring a stable copy out of ROM and then you
> can try to debug it again. I don't think the original intent was
> necessarily concerned with being able to switch applicatins without
> an intervening reset -- although I agree it would be a good
> feature. I think it would personally distract from my ability to
> debug. Who would know for sure what dmage had been done by a
> previous executable.

A consideration with this approach is that ROM is often much slower  
than RAM......

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