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(I'm not sure why people thought it had to be padded. Clearly, nobody ever tried otherwise.)
 
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'''Usual Size''' 8h
 
'''Usual Size''' 8h
  
This field holds the name of a flash app. It is always 8 bytes long and should be padded with zeros. There's no reason why you can't give an OS a name, but the boot code won't look for it, so you're out of luck.
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This field holds the name of a flash app. It is usually 8 bytes long and is often padded with zeros. However, it's legal to make the size less than 8 and not use padding. There's no reason why you can't give an OS a name, but the boot code won't look for it, so you're out of luck.

Latest revision as of 02:00, 26 May 2013

Synopsis

Field Number: 804h

Purpose Name

Parent 800 - Flash Variable

Usual Size 8h

This field holds the name of a flash app. It is usually 8 bytes long and is often padded with zeros. However, it's legal to make the size less than 8 and not use padding. There's no reason why you can't give an OS a name, but the boot code won't look for it, so you're out of luck.