DM800HD Image

[blizard442]

nothing really changes... it's just a number that increases... i guess sometimes the bootloader is modified slightly hence the increase in numbers.

IMPORTANT NOTE--- if you're happy with your image and everything works there's no reason to change it.

[RuberDuck]

nothing really changes... it's just a number that increases... i guess sometimes the bootloader is modified slightly hence the increase in numbers.

IMPORTANT NOTE--- if you're happy with your image and everything works there's no reason to change it.

not exactly true, the bootloader like the driver packs usually contain improvements etc for the box. i was not able to find a change-log for the bl82 or bl83 sets but for example here is the readme for the bl81 files.

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dreambox-secondstage.bb: update dm7025/dm800/dm8000/dm800se/dm500hd 2nd stage loader to #81
- some usb stack fixes / improvements
- changed mem layout for dm800se/dm8000/dm500hd hardware drivers >= 20110215
- some html fixes needed for modern web browsers (i.e. fixed ineffective "flash" button)
- fixed frequently dm500hd poweron problems
- fixed possible ethernet problems
update writenfi tool to fix secondstage on the fly updates on dm8000

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[gsmtech]

In terms of clone bootloaders, they generally allow use of newer official Dream drivers, drivers and images have protection built in so they will only run on official recievers.
Clone bootloaders circumvent the protection so the newer drivers and images can be used.

Currently at this stage, clone bootloaders are not up to date with driver releases so the latest drivers are not compatible with clones until a new clone bootlaoder is released.

This means you cant use newer images or drivers on clones unless they have been patched.

Clone SSL82 for SIM2.01, is not much different from 76D it is a early development release with a modified web interface. Future features are to be added, still not currently compatible with newer unpatched images or drivers.

SSL76D provided compatibility for images such as origianl unpatched images like DreamElite 1.0HD which were using newer drvers at the the time, these drivers were not supported by 76C.

Basically if your running DreamElite Phoenix Edition, with 76C there is no benefit to you upgrading to clone bootlaoder 76D or 82, but there is also no harm in doing so your box will work fine if you upgrade to 76D or 82.