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Re: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism for FIS from within ecos applications
- From: Tarmo Pikaro <tapika at yahoo dot com>
- To: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>, ml dot ecos at ringle dot org
- Cc: eCos development <ecos-devel at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:06:15 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: contributing filesystem and a failsafe update meachanism for FIS from within ecos applications
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Hi !
Hmmm... I'm kinda involved with firmware updating,
just a curious to hear that someone takes a closer
look at fail-safeness of update. Can you send me all
the related documentation and source code ?
> Yes. Erase operations reset all the bits to one.
> Programming can
> only change a one to a zero. This can be done on a
> bit by bit
> basis, thus you can update a block by changing some
> bits to zeroes
> without having to erase it.
>
> --
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> Gary Thomas | Consulting for the
> MLB Associates | Embedded world
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