Re: [ECOS] delete from fis directory

["David Lewin" <david dot lewin at europe-technologies dot com>]

Did I understood well :
- you need to update the new config by erasing the old.
- the old is in use

A solution could be to load the application executed in flash in RAM, just
during the update time.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <fazio@planetek.it>
To: "David Lewin" <david.lewin@europe-technologies.com>;
<ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: Re: [ECOS] delete from fis directory


> Thanks for your reply,
> My platform is a nec v850.
> I wrote a server application able to listen for a connection from a client
that can send
> a file to upload on the board. After receiving the file and copying it in
flash and
> changing the fconfig, it reboots the platform executing the new
application that must
> delete the old.
> It can delete the flash, but when it has to delete the image from fis
directory, the
> flash_program gives an error ("Driver timed out waiting for device").
> My problem is: I would to delete the piece of fis directory containing the
old apllication
> info (flash_base, lenght, checksum,...) but I'm executing another
application in the
> flash.
> I cannot erase the fis dir block because I'm executing another
application, so how can
> I delete only a piece of the fis dir?
> Thanks
>
> On 29 Jul 2004 at 11:24, David Lewin wrote:
>
> > >From my point of view , an Atmel-like flash  I mean,
> > you can't as the minimum is a sector (or a block for some others)
> >
> > What is your device ?
> > Why doing so ? even if you could, I'm not sure that you'll gain some
time or
> > lifecycle
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: <fazio@planetek.it>
> > To: <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 10:58 AM
> > Subject: [ECOS] delete from fis directory
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > it is possible to delete an image from fis directory using only
> > > flash_program to set the image to 0xff without erasing the entire
> > > block with flash_erase?
> > > Thanks
> > >
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