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Re: Failsafe Firmware Updates
- From: Stewart Heitmann <stewart at heitmann dot id dot au>
- To: ecos-discuss at ecos dot sourceware dot org
- Cc: Àlex Bueno Guarner <abg at dimat dot es>, "Andrew Lunn" <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 10:19:50 +1000
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Failsafe Firmware Updates
- References: <2C483502870A384A8ECA820BCE7B194771CE70@mail2.dimat.es>
> I think that when Linux starts, RedBoot is not executed any more.
sure. What I meant is that Redboot will use the fallback linux image on all subsequent boots.
> In my opinion, you need a watchdog.
I do, but that's only part of the story.
A watchdog will reboot me when things go bad, but it wont stop me continually rebooting the same bad linux image.
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Stewart Heitmann
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