Re: network flash update question

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From: Dean Ramsier (ramsiernospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:05:35 -0400

Actually, CE42 does support a file server. See PB help for more details.
Issues with updating the NK.bin itself still remain as outlined below. 

-- 
Dean Ramsier - eMVP
"Seung Yi" <seungyi@codetelligence_NOSPAMMERS_.com> wrote in message
news:uHwoAaZdEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> jcondon666 wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm  working on a solution for a customer of mine.  They have asked for
the capability to update the flash over the network. On a previous solution,
the flash was exposed as a network file system that allowed for the update
of the nk.bin and the application.
> >
> > Is this functionality in WinCE 4.2 or do I need a third party solution.
I'm looking at the strata flash block driver but can't find a good
description of how to enable a fat file system on top of it and whether or
not it supplies what I want.
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
>
> Previous versions of CE did not support Windows file sharing (could only
> do it as a client).  In CE 5.0, I believe you can now map local folders
> as network shares.  Also CE 5.0 has FTP server support now.  If your
> image is an execute-in-place image in flash then updating becomes more
> difficult as you won't be able to update while your image is running.
> If your flash is organized as a filesystem (like FAT) and the nk.bin
> resides as a simple file and is loaded into RAM for execution then it
> becomes easier as you simply have to expose the folder containing the
> nk.bin file.
>
> -- 
> Seung Yi
> Senior Engineer
> Codetelligence, Inc.
> Web   : www.codetelligence.com

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