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Re: ethernet download



On 24-Aug-2001 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:24:30AM -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.
> 
> [There needs to be an international treaty forbidding the
> trafficing in hardware without reset buttons.]

How about hardware with no serial port - only an ethernet connection?
Yes, we have worked with such beasties... fun, in the purest sense :-)


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