From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marcel <korgull@home.nl>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 20:14:13 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot] end-user firmware upgrade
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Dear Wolfgang,

Thanks a lot for your replies and updating the manual. I think both answers 
are very useful as a start and give me some more options to check out.

I guess my number one choice would involve creating a USB gadget driver for u-
boot that supports upgrading the firmware. I don't have USB host on my system 
but I will certainly check out if TFTP. This does look like a valid solution 
to me so I will start there.

Best regards,
Marcel


> Dear Marcel,
> 
> In message <201002012159.29244.korgull@home.nl> you wrote:
> > The way I think about it is that end-user can never be allowed to
> > interact directly with u-boot.  It's something I don't want and the users
> > of my devices also. Unfortunately I can't find anything yet to how I can
> > make it easy for my end-users to upgrade firmware of the device.
> 
> Note: I found it approproate to summarize this in the FAQ section of
> the manual.
> 
> See
> http://www.denx.de/wiki/DULG/HowCanIImplementAutomaticSoftwareUpdates
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Wolfgang Denk
>