I understand how it works in general, John was nacking the support as it duplicated existing functionality. I was asking more about this existing functionality within openwrt for supporting dual firmware images. I wasn't aware of any existing functionality for this.
Cheers, Karl P On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:25:40PM +0100, Fernando Frediani wrote: > Probably because most routers so far don't have enough flash memory > to hold two partitions. I have seen this used on some Professional > NAS systems. > Pretty useful though ! > > The information I have from Belkin about this feature how it works > is: If the new flashed partition has some problem (e.g: Kernel > Panic) U-Boot will try 3 times and if it still fails it will > automatically revert back to boot from the previous working > partition. > > Regards, > Fernando > > On 09/05/2014 12:16, Karl Palsson wrote: > >Are there any existing docs on sysupgrade dual boot support like this? It's > >a nice feature, > >and I'd love to use existing functionality for this, but I haven't seen it, > >or heard about it > >before. > > > >Cheers, > >Karl P > > > >On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 11:48:23AM +0200, John Crispin wrote: > >>nack, > >> > >>wrong folder duplicates functionality ...... > >> > >> John > >> > >>On 08/05/2014 23:07, Matthew Fatheree wrote: > >>> From dea780ba779104cd1460efe3815c16990f5db959 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > >>>2001 From: Matthew Fatheree <matthew.fathe...@belkin.com> Date: > >>>Sun, 4 May 2014 19:10:18 +0700 Subject: [PATCH 16/30] mamba mvebu: > >>>sysupgrade support for mamba + dual boot is supportted > >>> > >>>Add platform specific support for sysupgrade. Mamba supports dual > >>>boot implementation. The firmware can be flashed to Primary Boot > >>>partition or Alternative Boot partition. The sysupgrade has the > >>>ping-pong effect: > >..... > >_______________________________________________ > >openwrt-devel mailing list > >openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > >https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
