Another V2 question

[Eric W. Biederman]

Richard Smith <smithbone at gmail.com> writes:

> > Ok so by design you really only want a single firmware image.
> > 
> 
> Right.. I think Ron has me fixed up.  I was unaware that there was an
> overall flag that enabled/disabled the fallback system.

In the generic code yes.
 
> > It should be straight forward to remove all of the tests etc for switching
> > from a fallback to a normal image.
> 
> Do I really have to remove them?  Ron seemed to suggest that if I just
> turn off the fallback suff then I will end up with only a singel
> fallback image.

I was thinking of the per board test that make the policy decision
which image you should be in.
  
> > For those of us who have field upgradable systems it makes a bigger
> difference.
> 
> Yeah I would say so...  Since you guys have the power to render 1000
> paperweights with a single command.

Ron came insanely close to doing just that a while ago.
 
> Our product is going to go into Gasoline pumps.  You would not believe
> the lengths that some store operators go to so they can cheat the
> consumer slightly per fillup.  So our customer requires a flash update
> to be physical mod.

Now that is a sane reason not to have field upgradable parts. :)

Eric