[ECOS] ethernet download

Grant Edwards grante@visi.com
Fri Aug 24 08:32:00 GMT 2001


On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:24:30AM -0600, Trenton D. Adams wrote:

> > Also, in the case of systems like linux, RedBoot is out of the
> > picture completely once the app is started. The app is then
> > free to reuse any RAM that was previously used by RedBoot.
>
> Well then how are you supposed to ever update your program?  If
> redboot doesn't watch on the network port, you can't update
> your program anymore.

You push the little red reset button on the corner of the
board.  That returns control to RedBoot.

[There needs to be an international treaty forbidding the
trafficing in hardware without reset buttons.]

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com



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