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Re: ethernet download
- To: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ethernet download
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 09:48:32 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com,Mark Salter <msalter at redhat dot com>,"Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
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 :-)