[En-Nut-Discussion] EBOOT

[Harald Kipp]

At 10:36 31.10.2006 +0100, you wrote:

>1. Once the eboot is installed in the board, and it flash a new application
>from TFPT, the next time you restart the board, the eboot runs again?

If you programmed the fuses accordingly (boot reset vector), yes. This is most
convenient during development.



>2. It is posible to include de funtionality of eboot in a "normal"
>application and upload the firmware of the board form a "user application",
>or it needs to reside in a special zone of the memory? Some examples about
>that?

A special zone is not required, but I have no idea
how you would then re-program the currently executed
page.

One option is to jump to the bootloader with

  asm("jmp 0x1F000");

Harald