Can anyone comment on how many dollars it cost them to include this? Mask rom isn't particularly cheap, and historically companies have gone to great lengths to shave tens or hundreds of bytes from their first stage bootloaders that live in ROM...
Seems odd to find an apparent big dollar-waster in a mass market low cost device.
Can anyone comment on how many dollars it cost them to include this? Mask rom isn't particularly cheap, and historically companies have gone to great lengths to shave tens or hundreds of bytes from their first stage bootloaders that live in ROM...
Seems odd to find an apparent big dollar-waster in a mass market low cost device.