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Re: RedBoot porting
- To: Doug Fraser <dfraser at photuris dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] RedBoot porting
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 09:37:33 -0600
- Cc: "'Jesper Skov'" <jskov at redhat dot com>,Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <E2D27064CD59574F88D05AEF5728396D01E5E2@PH01SRV02.photuris.com>
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:30:22AM -0500, Doug Fraser wrote:
> Then RedBoot becomes a chunk of the application at that
> point. What I want then, I guess, is two copies of 'RedBoot'.
> An immutable copy in FLASH that provides recovery of a dead board
> and a runtime copy that contains the callbacks for the OS.
I don't see any reason why you can't run the "immutable" copy
from RAM also. You just need your start-up code to decide
which copy of RedBoot to copy/run.
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Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com