[hpsdr] Upgrading firmware on baords

[Paul Fletcher]

Sorry Jim, I got my boot loader and programmer mixed up. Bootloader is the program used to flash Mercury and Penny.

> On 4 Jan 2017, at 09:18, Paul Fletcher <paul_fletcher at me.com> wrote:
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> Hi Jim,
> 
> Whenever I’ve programmed Mercury or Penny in the past, Metis has to be in normal mode, and the only the board present should be the one being programmed (Penny or Mercury). The target board should have the jumper set to indicate “last JTAG”. After that it’s worked fine for me all using HPSDRrogrammer.
> 
> HPSDRBootloader is only used to program Metis and then only if HPSDRProgrammer fails to program Metis properly (this is explained in the Metis user manual).
> 
> Regards,
> Paul.
> 
>> On 4 Jan 2017, at 04:15, Jim Sanford <wb4gcs at wb4gcs.org> wrote:
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>> All:
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>> I am trying to help a friend who just purchased a Metis, Mercury, Penny, Atlas system.  He is trying to update the firmware, which is original.
>> 
>> Using HPSDRPRogrammer, he was able to update Metis to v 3.0.  We have been unable to update Mercury or Penny.
>> 
>> The guidance in documentation I have is ambiguous.
>> 
>> Questions:
>> 
>> 1.  What does HPSDRBootloader do?
>> 
>> 2.  What does HPDSDRProgrammer do?
>> 
>> 3.  What jumpers should be installed when?
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>> 4.  What program and what jumper settings (metis and mercury) should be used to update Mercury?
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>> 5.  What program and what jumper settings (penny and metis) should be used to update Penny?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks & 73,
>> 
>> Jim
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>> wb4gcs at amsat.org
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