From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5739 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2004 12:26:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5707 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2004 12:26:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hermes.chez-thomas.org) (206.168.96.204) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Nov 2004 12:26:31 -0000 Received: by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 70DFA10000B; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 05:26:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hermes.chez-thomas.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 692A1100008; Mon, 1 Nov 2004 05:26:28 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: AW: [ECOS] [Proposal & Patch] enhancing redboot/fis for failsafeflash updates From: Gary Thomas To: "Neundorf, Alexander" Cc: eCos Maintainers In-Reply-To: <5A8A17126B73AC4C83968F6C4505E3C5013EFA04@JO-EX01.JENOPTIK.NET> References: <5A8A17126B73AC4C83968F6C4505E3C5013EFA04@JO-EX01.JENOPTIK.NET> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: MLB Associates Message-Id: <1099311987.31163.1.camel@hermes> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 12:26:00 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on hermes.chez-thomas.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=2.5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.0 X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00000.txt.bz2 On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 04:33, Neundorf, Alexander wrote: > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Gary Thomas [mailto:gary@mlbassoc.com] > > Gesendet: Freitag, 8. Oktober 2004 16:50 > > An: Neundorf, Alexander > > Cc: eCos Discussion > > Betreff: Re: [ECOS] [Proposal & Patch] enhancing redboot/fis for > > failsafeflash updates > > > > > > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 08:29, Neundorf, Alexander wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > we need to be able to perform safe updates of the firmware, > > safe regarding power loss at any point in time. Since redboot > > comes with FIS, we'd like to use fis. > > > In order to update the firmware a new firmware image has to > > be placed on the flash and the fis directory has to be > > updated. When updating the fis directory, the directory is > > erased and afterwards written with the new contents. > > > Now if the power goes down directly after erasing the > > directory redboot can't start the firmware image anymore > > since it can't read the directory. > > > > > ... > > > > I plan on looking at this next week (today I'm moving house). > > However, > > before we can consider such massive changes, we'll need copyright > > assignment for this work. Have you applied for this already? If not, > > please visit our website for the details. > > Hi Gary, > > the copyright assignement contract is now almost signed here. > Do I need to do something special before sending it to you ? > Should I also fax it so that you receive a copy faster than via snailmail ? Please don't send it to me. eCosCentric is handling these interim assignments and it should go to them. -- Gary Thomas MLB Associates