Antwort: Re: barebox JSON

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 01:52:33PM +0200, christian.buettner at rafi.de wrote:
> The advantage is a generic interface used in mass production.
> 
> I formulate my question in another way.
> Is there an approach launching a little tool, that listens to UART or 
> Ethernet when the bootloader starts.
> The tool is kind of an dispatcher, using an incoming message to start e.g. 
> an update of the kernel.

Well we have UART console and network console, you can use something
like kermit or expect to remote control barebox.

I know this sucks and is not what you wanted to hear, but currently this
is all we have.

I more than once thought about a real machine interface to barebox, but
I have no good idea how to do this.

Sascha

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