Re: [ECOS] BOOPT bootfile

["Gary D. Thomas" <gary dot thomas at mind dot be>]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 08:29, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:26:04AM -0700, Gary D. Thomas wrote:
> 
> > > One obvious improvement would be to auto-detect the filetype.
> > 
> > Agreed - I'll try and find a solution which handles this.
> > 
> > > Another option I was thinking about would be to treat the
> > > downloaded file as a script rather than an application
> 
> Which might as well be combined with the filetype detection so
> that if a downloaded file begins with #!RedBoot it's
> interpreted as a script.  That would be cool.
> 

That's an idea - I'll think about it.

> > > That way you could do just put
> > > 
> > >  load foobar.bin
> > >  go
> > >  
> > > into the file pointed to by BOOTP/DHCP
> > 
> > Which is exactly what I suggested two years ago :-)
> 
> I guess I misunderstood.  I thought that the suggestion was for
> the DHCP/BOOTP info to be put into script variables so that the
> script (still required to be in flash) could do something like
> "load $BOOTPFILE".  I didn't realize that you were suggesting
> that the downloaded file be interpreted as a script.

Actually, I suggested both approaches.  Since we now have
script macros - which are very much just variables - this
approach is also now a possibility.

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