Method of Firmware Upgrade
AssigneeWistron Corporation
InventorChun-Chih Lin
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Abstract
A method of firmware upgrade for an embedded device includes performing a boot procedure to read a boot address, determining whether the boot address is a first address, determining whether a first system image is executable if the boot address is the first address, loading the first system image to enter a first operating system if the first system image is executable, so as to perform a test procedure in the first operating system, and setting the boot address to be a second address after the test procedure is completed.
Claims17
A method of firmware upgrade, for an embedded device, comprising:
- performing a boot procedure to read a boot address;
- determining whether the boot address is a first address;
- determining whether a first system image is executable if the boot address is the first address;
- loading the first system image to enter a first operating system if the first system image is executable, so as to perform a test procedure in the first operating system;
- and
- setting the boot address to be a second address after the test procedure is completed.
A method of firmware upgrade, for an embedded device, comprising:
- performing a boot procedure to read a system image;
- determining whether the system image is a first system image;
- and
- loading the first system image to enter a first operating system if the system image is the first system image, so as to perform a test procedure in the first operating system.
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