[Soekris] What about this feature request?

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sat Sep 9 05:56:39 UTC 2006


In message <45021E11.7080102 at internetcds.com>, Jaye Mathisen writes:

>So what about an alternate download option in the soekris bios that just 
>takes a Xmodem download, and just
>starts writing it over the CF starting at sector 0?  It'd sure be handy 
>for in-the-field fixings, quick and dirty tests,
>and such, and w/o knowing anything about how to implement it, seems like 
>it should be pretty straightforward.

I'm still trying to get Soren to hand me the Bios sources, and when
he finally does, I want to add code to download both BIOS updates and
CF images via the network.   It may only be TFTP, but it would be
much more convenient.


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