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Configurable embedded Linux firmware update creator and runner

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-01-21 · latest 2024-10-06

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  1. …seen. I work on the Nerves project which does Elixir on top of Buildroot and there we use fwup ( https://github.com/fwup-home/fwup ) which does a very nice job of a lot of this. Including signing, hashing and more. This is a real example…
    comment by lawik · 2024-10-06 · in Buildroot
  2. I’ve been using fwup ( https://github.com/fwup-home/fwup ) in embedded Linux consumer products for almost 10 years and it has Just Worked. Supports A/B updates, uboot integration, and signed update files. Not sure about buildroot, but in…
    comment by msarnoff · 2024-10-06 · in Buildroot
  3. …can effectively destroy the SD card, so skip the SD cards. 0: https://www.nerves-project.org/ 1: https://github.com/fwup-home/fwup
    comment by elcritch · 2021-03-16 · in Why we decided for and against Ubuntu Core
  4. …is also highly compressed. 1: https://github.com/LeToteTeam/kiosk_system_rpi3/blob/master/... 2: https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup
    comment by elcritch · 2018-11-25 · in Strato Pi – An Industrial Raspberry Pi
  5. It's not a full OTA solution, but fwup ( https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup ) handles the packaging and application of Linux firmware update images quite well. Apache licensed, supports A/B updates (see tomc1985's comment), Ed25519 digital…
    comment by msarnoff · 2018-01-18 · in Software Updates for IoT Devices and the Hidden Costs of Homegrown Updaters [pdf]
  6. …not like you can just SSH into your server or kill that cloud instance and start a new one :) [1] https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup [2] https://snapcraft.io/
    comment by thom_nic · 2017-04-14 · in Embedded developers need an open source OTA software updater without the lock-in
  7. From the same Nerves project I had founnd this: https://github.com/fhunleth/fwup It is a firmware updater. It seems one mode is the basic create whole disk image and replace. The other is can handle update "tasks". Now in general Erlang…
    comment by rdtsc · 2015-01-21 · in Cross-compiled Erlang, Elixir, and LFE for Embedded Devices