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Re: RedBoot Development?
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 17:39, Fred Fierling wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 15:28, Fred Fierling wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Is anyone working on the next version of RedBoot? I see no reference to
> >>such a project anywhere on the eCos web site and I am interested in
> >>helping with or even, with some direction, driving such an effort. What
> >>would users want to see in a newer version? Or is everyone happy with
> >>RedBoot as it is?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >We don't really have "versions" - eCos and RedBoot are constantly
> >evolving. So, even if you don't see anything specific, stuff happens
> >all the time :-) Most of the changes in eCos and RedBoot are customer
> >and target platform driven, with some generic improvements & extensions
> >being added along the way.
> >
> >What sorts of things did you have an interest in?
> >
> A partial wish list:
>
> - a consistent "verb option object value" command syntax
We already have a consistent command syntax. How is what you propose
any better?
> - command line history
Already supported.
> - enhancements to decompress gzipped ELF binaries from flash into RAM
> for execution
'fis load' already knows how to unzip data. Putting ELF images into
FLASH would be wastful IMO.
> - redundant config data spaces in FIS (in case power fails during writes)
> - DHCP and TFTP clients that can pull configuration data (or a set up
> script) from a server at boot time
I've already thought about this one - just haven't had the time to do
it.
>
> Comments?
Feel free to propose patches - if they are reasonable and accepted
by the maintainers, they'll go in.
--
Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
MLB Associates