19 Sep
2006
19 Sep
'06
2:56 p.m.
Andy Green wrote:
Because the hardware is fixed, and the special nature of what U-boot does, a workaround for me might be to never update U-boot, but obviously that is less than fully desirable. That way we ship U-boot in the flash, provide sources for it, but never distribute a signed update avoiding the proposed potential problem.
I know this doesn't relate to your original question about licences, but it would seem to me that distributing u-boot updates is *very* risky. One slip and every customer could be sending you back dead units in the post.
If you make sure before you sell that u-boot can boot a kernel, and upgrade the kernel (without assuming a working kernel is present) you won't need to support u-boot upgrades.
Alex