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Re: RedBoot Development?
Gary Thomas wrote:
What sorts of things did you have an interest in?
A partial wish list:
- a consistent "verb option object value" command syntax
We already have a consistent command syntax. How is what you propose
any better?
I figured this would evoke a response. :)
Our thinking is that all commands should start with verbs. So commands
like dump, load, ping and reset are good, but ip_address, version,
cache, etc are inconsistent. Instead we'd propose a "verb option object
value" format, ie:
set ip_address 192.168.0.1
set cache on
list version
list fis
load fis
It would be even better if objects had structure and a type, so instead
of the above:
set ip.address 192.168.0.1
set ip.dns 192.168.0.13
load fis.name
set serial.rate 9600
list serial.bits
- enhancements to decompress gzipped ELF binaries from flash into RAM
for execution
'fis load' already knows how to unzip data. Putting ELF images into
FLASH would be wastful IMO.
Not if you wanted to locate them as you load them from flash to RAM.
- redundant config data spaces in FIS (in case power fails during writes)
- DHCP and TFTP clients that can pull configuration data (or a set up
script) from a server at boot time
I've already thought about this one - just haven't had the time to do
it.
Good, we agree on two items. Does anyone else?
Comments?
Feel free to propose patches - if they are reasonable and accepted
by the maintainers, they'll go in.
Who are the maintainers?