Send many small ERASEs instead of a single, large INITIATE #181
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Helps get past transport timeouts.
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INITIATEis a payload update subcommand that erases the entire staging area.A host sending
INITIATEcan be blocked forO(minutes)on the host command transport, e.g., USB, SPI.This blocking behavior often violates transport timeouts and cause a payload update to fail.
ERASEis a payload update subcommand that erases a specific offset and size of the staging area.A host sending
ERASEis only blocked forO(seconds), preventing the transport timeouts.