Re: [U-Boot] Secure update of uboot devices?

2012-03-17 Thread Andreas Bäck
Hello Our linux boxes with Uboot and frescale mpc5200B are set at production with software and that is no problem. But then when the need to update software afterwards in the field is today only so simple that if uboot finds a usb stick with a file uImage then it will start that and do all the upd

[U-Boot] Have there been any toughs of adding exFAT file system support?

2012-03-03 Thread Andreas Bäck
More and more people are starting to use exFat on their usb sticks especially now when windows starts to be the majority of instalations ___ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot

Re: [U-Boot] Secure update of uboot devices?

2012-01-06 Thread Andreas Bäck
Actually there seams to exsist some very old patches for this http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2006-September/016960.html Here a paper quite exact what I am after: http://elinux.org/images/2/28/Trusted_Boot_Loader.pdf Is there any toughts on integating this in trunk or should I try to merge

Re: [U-Boot] Secure update of uboot devices?

2011-12-30 Thread Andreas Bäck
sha1sum sum is yes enough to verify that no files have been modified on the file system on the already installed Linux device. But my case here is if one need to update the software on the device out somewhere in the world we have now made a usb stick and uboot looks for special files first on the

[U-Boot] Secure update of uboot devices?

2011-12-28 Thread Andreas Bäck
With the new threats like Stuxnet and Duqu one need to improve on how new updates to software is distrubuted to devcies so one can be sure that it's not a hacked or modified software that runs in the device. We use uboot + usb stick to update the software in our devices. Have anyone been trying out