[U-Boot] suggested/stealable setups for robustness with switchable partitions?

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Robert,

In message <alpine.LFD.2.20.1607221314020.1878@localhost.localdomain> you wrote:
> 
>   followup to my earlier post, i'll keep this short as i want to do
> some research first, but i'm looking for setups where target boards
> have dual partitions that switch between active and inactive for
> reliability.

Switching partitions is usually not some isolated feature, but part of
a software update and reliable fall back configuration.  In U-Boot, it
is usually found in combination with the boot counter feature; in
Linux, it usually requires support of a (hardware) watchdog.

Once you reached that point, you probably want to look at the
swupdate [1] project and read it's documentation...

[1] http://git.denx.de/?p=swupdate.git;a=summary

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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