[En-Nut-Discussion] Nut/OS 4.8

[Harald Kipp]

Thiago A. Corrêa wrote:
> A boot folder would be nice, we could arrange things better. I
> personaly would call it bootloader instead though.

The boot directory exists already.

> Then we could move appmon and eboot there as well, and make it more
> evident what they are. 

Moving directories with CVS is painful, so I'd recommend to leave it to
the new version control.

> I remember when I was a newbie with ethernut I
> wasn't even aware there were bootloaders there for quite a while.

Since long time I planned to move them to a new project, because the
existing ones do not need Nut/OS and may be helpful for other projects
as well. However, Ole always had been an advocate of Nut/OS based boot
loaders, which is somewhat contrary.


> It would be nice if we made them a little more production aware as
> well, add optional crypto or something. Should make things easier for
> new comers and reduce the necessity of forking the bootloaders into
> private projetcs. It doesn't have to be super strong, and we could
> make the keys configurable :)
> Just a thought anyway.

Such boot loaders exist, but the companies that created them or paid for
their development are not enthusiastic in publishing that work.

Harald