Another V2 question

Eric W. Biederman ebiederman at lnxi.com
Thu Jan 20 19:27:00 CET 2005


Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> writes:

> > :)
> > Do you have any other non-volatile storage?
> 
> Nope.
> 
> > A serial eeprom might be another good choice, of a location for variables.
> > Anyway I understand the reasons for it and will happily work on brainstorming
> 
> By design if you want to change the boot firmware of our device (in
> production) you will have to de-solder the flash.

Ok so by design you really only want a single firmware image.

It should be straight forward to remove all of the tests etc for switching
from a fallback to a normal image.

For those of us who have field upgradable systems it makes a bigger difference.

Eric



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