Re: how patching

2015-02-14 Thread Gedare Bloom
The most general way to solve this problem is to use a form of dynamic loading. I am aware of two such user-based approaches in RTEMS, cexp has it and I believe NASA also had the capability. Their approach was to reserve sections of the binary for known parts of the application, and then you can up

Re: how patching

2015-02-14 Thread Олег Мороз
I've tried to do that on a flying spacecraft. Spacecraft on board computer's RTOS was a vxworks but in my case it does not matters. I've did it in most easiest way. I've got an original binary file (with which SC was launched) and a modified (with some bugfixes). Then i'm just compare it byte b

Re: how patching

2015-02-13 Thread Daniel Gutson
Just to clarify: the ability to provide a new piece of binary corresponding to a driver and replace the existing one. Have anybody tried this before? Thanks! Daniel. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 12:27 PM, Daniel Gutson wrote: > Hi, > >is there any current experience / support with hot patchin

how patching

2015-02-13 Thread Daniel Gutson
Hi, is there any current experience / support with hot patching? E.g. patching a driver while the whole system is running. Thanks, Daniel. -- Daniel F. Gutson Chief Engineering Officer, SPD San Lorenzo 47, 3rd Floor, Office 5 Córdoba, Argentina Phone: +54 351 4217888 / +54 351 42182