On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 02:29:12PM +1100, Aras Vaichas wrote: > > In barebox (aka u-boot-v2) we have USB DFU support, in a very flexible > > way. Would that fit your needs? > > That would probably be better than TFTP over ethernet. A USB DFU > upgrade would only require the microcontroller to be functioning for > the upgrade to work and it doesn't require TCP/IP stack or ethernet > chip drivers. Yup. Barebox has Kconfig as it's configuration system, so you can make components y/n/m. It follows the same module mechanism as the kernel, so you can insmod drivers if you need them. > I maintain a family of devices which can be built with or without > ethernet. Currently we attach an ethernet daughterboard to the device > to bootstrap it, and for development, but remove it for commercial > use. Sounds like a usecase for insmod :-) rsc -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
