From: Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>
To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams@theone.dnsalias.com>
Cc: 'Mark Salter' <msalter@redhat.com>,
gthomas@redhat.com, ecos-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] ethernet download
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 08:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010824104313.A3724@visi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001901c12cb2$ce615290$090110ac@TRENT>
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:38:21AM -0600, Trenton D. Adams wrote:
> > > > Also, in the case of systems like linux, RedBoot is out of the
> > > > picture completely once the app is started. The app is then
> > > > free to reuse any RAM that was previously used by RedBoot.
> > >
> > > Well then how are you supposed to ever update your program? If
> > > redboot doesn't watch on the network port, you can't update
> > > your program anymore.
> >
> > You push the little red reset button on the corner of the
> > board. That returns control to RedBoot.
>
> Very funny! :) I'm talking about when Redboot is set to run the
> program on bootup.
You set up redboot to wait for 5 seconds (or however long you
want) so that you've got a chance to stop the auto-loading of the
default program from FLASH. Then you can use the normal
RedBoot commands to load a different program, burn it to Flash,
whatever.
[We're currently shipping a product that does exactly that.]
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-24 8:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-23 14:41 Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-23 15:58 ` Gary Thomas
2001-08-24 7:38 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-24 7:51 ` Gary Thomas
2001-08-24 7:59 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-24 8:06 ` Gary Thomas
2001-08-24 8:22 ` Mark Salter
2001-08-24 8:24 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-24 8:30 ` Gary Thomas
2001-08-24 8:32 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-24 8:38 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-24 8:41 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2001-08-24 8:40 ` Gary Thomas
2001-08-24 8:42 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-24 8:51 ` Gary Thomas
2001-08-24 9:00 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-24 9:03 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-24 9:05 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-24 9:09 ` Trenton D. Adams
2001-08-24 9:03 ` Gary Thomas
2001-08-24 9:46 ` Grant Edwards
2001-08-24 8:34 ` Mark Salter
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