Re: [riot-devel] Memory Management

2015-01-22 Thread Martine Lenders
Hi Raphael, for the native-stuff you have to ask Ludwig for the specifics as to of why, but most of the hosts system's implementation of standard functions are wrapped. I think this was because our POSIX interface would otherwise colide with the system's POSIX interface. As for the other boards

Re: [riot-devel] Memory Management

2015-01-22 Thread Ludwig Ortmann
Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:56:22AM +0100, Martine Lenders wrote: for the native-stuff you have to ask Ludwig for the specifics as to of why, but most of the hosts system's implementation of standard functions are wrapped. I think this was because our POSIX interface would otherwise colide

Re: [riot-devel] Call for OTA (Over the Air Update) Task Force

2015-01-22 Thread Leon
Hi :-) I have trouble making sense of this - could you please elaborate a bit? (This is what I read: If there is an error in the firmware update code it might not work.) This is what i mean. I guess that is to be expected. If the firmware update contains an error it might not work. To add

Re: [riot-devel] Call for OTA (Over the Air Update) Task Force

2015-01-22 Thread gnupic
If I may throw up a ball. I think we should only define and specify a secure OTA protocol and leave it up to the implementation if an external flash memory is used for saving the image or an internal. For the OTA protocol this is not relevant and we should not limit the implementation by

Re: [riot-devel] Call for OTA (Over the Air Update) Task Force

2015-01-22 Thread Frank
Hello Ludwig, Am 22.01.2015 um 10:50 schrieb Ludwig Ortmann: Hi, On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:20:47AM +0100, Frank wrote: it's possible to brick the device when flash code crashes every time when it writes a new image. Then we have an corrupt image and an non working image. I have trouble