[ELDK] remote upgrade to a read-only nor flash partition

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Dieter,

In message <4206182445660643B9AEB8D4E55BBD0A157521115E at HERMES2> you wrote:
> 
> we want to make a remote upgrade of a kernel image in an embedded
> system. The kernel is on a read-only nor flash partition. Now I have

Hm... sounds like an oxymoron to me.

If the partition is read-only, you can only read from it, but you
cannot update it.

> read about mtd-utils that they are problematic doing those things.

Maybe you could be a bit more specific?  Which exact issues do you see
with using the MTD utulities?

> Have anyone experience about remote upgrade with mtd-utils or should
> we go another way.

The fundamental problem of your approach is that a read-only storage
device cannot be written (otherwise it would not be read-only). Given
the lack of precise information it is also not possible to say if the
mtd-utils are suitable for what you want to do.

Please also note that your question is quite off topic here: this has
nothing to do with ELDK.  If you have specific, MTD related questions
you should ask these on the MTD mailing list instead.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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