From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robert Schwebel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] CELF open project proposal Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:02:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20091204080206.GK22533@pengutronix.de> References: <4B15AAFE.4030705@am.sony.com> <8bd0f97a0912021336xf1ef7ebmfb502efabec187cb@mail.gmail.com> <4B16E03D.3000202@am.sony.com> <20091203062503.4300CE6D391@gemini.denx.de> <9c9fda240912030538j14ea07bdr7fa2f4c1b902405c@mail.gmail.com> <20091203205447.GJ22533@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Aras Vaichas Cc: Kyungmin Park , linux-embedded 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 |