[ECOS] ethernet download

[Grant Edwards]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 09:48:32AM -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> On 24-Aug-2001 Grant Edwards wrote:
> > 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.]
> 
> How about hardware with no serial port - only an ethernet connection?
> Yes, we have worked with such beasties... fun, in the purest sense :-)

My version of RedBoot listens on a TCP port.  You push the
reset button then you've got 10 seconds to telnet to RedBoot.
Once you've opened a telnet session, it just like you're
connected to a serial console.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com