Hi Michael, On 21/11/2013 19:20, michael_e_br...@dell.com wrote: > Thanks for posting this. It’s very timely for a project I am in the > initial stages of designing. I have looked over the docs and some of the > code, and am interested in using this. > > > > I would make a couple suggestions: >
Thanks ! > 1) As you mention, documentation is important. Unless this is very > well documented, it’s difficult for other people to take up and use > effectively, or to advocate for its use in a group I know, and I am understand there are a lot of things that I have not explained. Documentation is first priority. > 2) Progress indications: it’s going to be fairly important to build > in some way to notify other process about the state of the update. > A > flexible framework for sharing progress would be very much appreciated. There is an interface using Unix Domain Socket to communicate with the installer. There is only a couple of implemented messages (start installer - get status). It is quite rudimentary, but it can be extended. This interface is also used by the AJAX interface (see in ./www) to report the current status to the operator's browser when a downloaded is started from network. Another use case is to output the status on a LCD: a separate process can ask the installer and render the output for the operator. > There are a couple scenarios I have, but the main one is a network > notification where one device is being updated by another. The updated > device should be able to signal update progress to the updater device in > a flexible fashion. I haven’t looked at the code hard enough to see how > difficult this would be to add. I think it is should be not very difficult. As I said, there is already an interface that can be easy extended. Regards, Stefano -- ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-53 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: sba...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
