AW: [ECOS] Self extracting target installer

["Volker Kamp" <vk at volkerkamp dot com>]

> Von: ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org
> [mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@ecos.sourceware.org]Im Auftrag von Doyle,
> Patrick
> Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Juli 2004 16:51
> An: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
> Betreff: [ECOS] Self extracting target installer
>
>
> Before I go and reinvent the wheel, I thought I would ask if anybody else
> had already solved this problem.
>
> We have a product that includes RedBoot, two executable binary images, and
> 17 data files that all need to be installed in the Flash Image System
> managed by RedBoot.  The heads up I've gotten from Manufacturing is that
> they are going to throw a fit if we ask them to:
>
>  1)  run Hyperterm
>  2)  type in "fis load -m ymodem"
>  2a) sometimes, you need to type in "fis load -r -b -m ymodem"
>  3)  Use Hyperterm to select the next file to download
>  4)  type in "fis create filename"
> (By the way -- it's very important that you spell the filename correctly
> here -- if you don't then the product won't work, so make sure that the
> filename matches the one you downloaded)
>  5)  later, rinse, repeat for each of 17 files
> (By the way -- it's very important that you download all 17 of
> the files and
> install them in flash.  If you take a break for lunch and come
> back and you
> start off where you ended before, but you forgot one of the
> files, then the
> product won't work).
>
> You get the idea :-)

What about using a scriptable terminal program like ZOC? You can control all
the action within a script: typing, downloading, checking replys etc. It
would save a lot of work.
Or use "expect" on linux.
Regards,
Volker

>
> So I am going to write a single (ROM-monitor-less, so we could even use it
> to update the RedBoot stored in FLASH if we needed to), application that
> contains as data, the 19 or 20 files that need to be installed in FLASH.
> I'll probably even go so far as to compress the data so it doesn't take as
> long to download it.  Then I can revision control a single image, which I
> give to manufacturing, and they can download and run a single program in
> order to load everything on the device that needs to be loaded.
>
> This sounds a lot like a self-extracting archive that we use in the
> non-embedded land (does anybody remember "shar" files from Unix anymore?).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Patrick Doyle
> DSP Design Engineer
> (603) 546-2179
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