Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-22 Thread Andy Green
On 12/21/09 23:19, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi Robert - Thanks for your reply. mode, so you can re-flash as often as you like. However, our use cases are probably different than yours (deeply embedded systems, which often don't even have removable stuff like SD or USB

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-22 Thread Robert Schwebel
Hi Andy, [is this the right set of lists to discuss these issues? It's not directly CELF related, but I don't know a better place for general project independend bootloader discussions] On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:22:27AM +, Andy Green wrote: DFU is a special update mechanism which I believe

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-22 Thread Andy Green
On 12/22/09 11:12, Somebody in the thread at some point said: Hi Robert - (Personally I used Fedora ARM port and RPM, but any distro and packagesystem like Debian workable on ARM would be fine). Until now, we are using the build it yourself approach with ptxdist, basically because of these

Re: [Celinux-dev] CELF Project Proposal- Refactoring Qi, lightweight bootloader

2009-12-22 Thread Jamie Lokier
Rob Landley wrote: However, if that's your minimum then you can't use the bootloader to re-flash the device, which is kind of handy. (It gives you an un-bricking fallback short of pulling out a jtag.) But doing that requires things like a network driver, TCP/IP stack, tftp implementation,