x56h34 wrote:
It sounds like a pretty nice piece of hardware, however how does it manage to pull of the patch-o-rama without reboots? What's the catch?
Simple... when autoconfig does it`s stuff, the KickFlash tells the Amiga it has a ROM. Then the autoconfig process scans the flash, looking for romtags, and adds its location to devices list (but only if it doesnt exist there, or has a higher version number).
So when exec needs to open a device or library, it will open the newer versions from the flash instead of the kickstarts.
I`m not 100% sure how exec gets replaced, as it must already be running to get this far..maybe it does reboot, and because the rom update doesnt have to be loaded from HD, it happens a lot quicker and earlier in the boot sequence.
