[chirp_devel] Bug #463

[Dan Smith]

> Here's the problem with a few Baofeng UV-5R radios with BFB297
> firmware. There are apparently 2 versions with BFB297 floating around.
> 
> 1. Image is '  Ver  BFB297   '  (works OK)
> 2. Image is 'BFB299 BFB297   '  (upload failure)
> 
> The upload failure is caused by the 'Ver  BFB' check failure. There
> is no 'Ver  "

Sigh.
 
> A possible solution is to narrow the requirements of the check
> 
> -     if "Ver  BFB" not in radio_version:
> +    if "BFB" not in radio_version:

Yeah, I guess that's okay.

> Is it safe to swap the 'aux blocks' of this two similar firmware
> versions?

No, IMHO. Since history has shown that doing so is dangerous, lets not
even go there :)

-- 
Dan Smith
www.danplanet.com
KK7DS
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