Dear Andy, In message <4b29f834.90...@warmcat.com> you wrote: > > Another big problem with U-Boot was the inability to update the > bootloader from the Linux world. Instead the bootloader was treated > special and had to be updated over USB with DFU (the exclusivity of it > enforced by an ECC policy disconnected from Linux, meaning U-Boot had to > write it in there). In Qi, the bootloader can be updated by a packaged > update like anything else in the rootfs.
Can you explain to me why it was not possible to update U-Boot from Linux? I cannot imagine a reason for such a restriction. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one. - James G. Bennet -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
