[opendtv] Re: Over the air updates for STB's
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:18:24 -0500
At 11:58 AM -0500 12/9/04, Kon Wilms wrote:
>So with these options we're looking at a lot of extra code, and a lot of
>'unused' flash space which pushes up the price of the STB, and makes it
>less competitive than the other el cheapo box (which cuts corners but
>says it can be safely updated). If you hang up these boxes in the field
>the 3rd party A/97 update server manufacturer is the one that will get
>the blame for 'delivering the updates incorrectly'.
How does the availability of local cache storage impact these upgrades?
It seems that it would be trivially easy to store an image of the
flash memory on the hard disk, and to build the image of an update on
that disk as well. One might even be able to use the volatile system
RAM to store a temporary image, although this would be vulnerable to
a power glitch.
Regards
Craig
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