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Re: ethernet download
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at theone dot dnsalias dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] ethernet download
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:34:09 -0500
- Cc: 'Mark Salter' <msalter at redhat dot com>, gthomas at redhat dot com,ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200108241522.f7OFMDW13533@deneb.localdomain> <001101c12cb0$df48a1f0$090110ac@TRENT>
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.]
--
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com