MSP 430

Hi has anyone tried writing to the information memory of the MSP430
with the BSL.  I'm trying and failing, I have applied the patch but it
doesn't seem to work.  Do I need to download the latest BSL? or can
you not write to the Info Memory with the BSL commands?
Cheers
Mark.

On May 10, 8:01 pm, sharkyboos...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi has anyone tried writing to the information memory of the MSP430
> with the BSL.  I'm trying and failing, I have applied the patch but it
> doesn't seem to work.  Do I need to download the latest BSL? or can
> you not write to the Info Memory with the BSL commands?
> Cheers
> Mark.

what is bsl?

Rohan wrote:
> On May 10, 8:01 pm, sharkyboos...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> Hi has anyone tried writing to the information memory of the MSP430
>> with the BSL.  I'm trying and failing, I have applied the patch but it
>> doesn't seem to work.  Do I need to download the latest BSL? or can
>> you not write to the Info Memory with the BSL commands?
>> Cheers
>> Mark.
> 
> what is bsl?
> 

BSL = ootstrap loader- the serial, bitbanged flash programmer. It works 
well, if a little slowly. And no, I haven't tried it for info memory 
(the two 128 byte extra flash pages) but I would guess that the problem 
lies with  protection- the BSL uses the program's vector table as a 
security password, without it you can only erase the whole flash.

Paul Burke