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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