Hardware Installation and Change of Battery
5.6 Software Support
The flash memory carries the standard boot program “Das U-Boot” and enables the EPPC-T10 to
boot various operating systems from on-board Flash, network, USB, microSD card or optional
SSD. BSP is available for Linux. Others on request.
The esd EtherCAT Master is available for the BSPs developed by esd (see page 37).
For detailed information about the driver availability for your operating system, please contact our
sales team:
5.7 Firmware License
The complete local firmware is stored in the internal flash and can be updated as required. The
EPPC-T10 module can be configured by serial console.
Bootloader
“Das U-Boot”
(Saving / editing of variables, e.g. IP-addresses)
License information
GNU
This product uses the open source-bootloader “Das U-Boot”. The U-
Boot-source code is released under the terms of the GNU Public
License (GPLv2+).
The complete text of the license is contained in the esd-document
“3rd Party Licensor Notice” as part of the product documentation.
esd provides the complete bootloader-source code on request.
esd strives to restore all changes on the bootloader into the official
sources.
The homepage of the U-Boot project is:
http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot.
Update Mechanism
Ethernet
System Boot
The system can be configured so that it can boot from one of the two
SPI-Flash memories (selectable via jumper).
Fixed system settings as MAC address and configurable settings
(e.g. IP address) are stored in U-Boot variables in the EEPROM,
which is connected via I²C.
EPPC-T10
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