From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn To: Gary Thomas , eCos Disuss Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot porting Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 07:59:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010108165906.S10158@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> References: <20010108093453.D10230@visi.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-01/msg00084.html > Have you looked at the flash drivers we already have? They have > techniques (running just the flash access functions in RAM) for this. > The only complication is when trying to [re]program the flash that > is actually executing, i.e. the RedBoot code itself. For that, we > use a version of RedBoot designed to run from RAM. This is ok for development, but not ok for in field upgrades by customers/installation people. Do you want me to teach my customers how to run a RAM copy of redboot so that they can then upgrade the ROM copy? I think not. Customers need something simple like. Boot the system as normal, TFTP put this image and press the reset button. Andrew