Firmware Upgrade

Under Construction!

In this document, we will focus on the Firmware Upgrade

Firmware

Firmware on IPLOG-GAMA is composed of three parts.

Recovery image - This part is read only and used to restore the system in the event of a main firmware fatal error of parts Firmware Image 1 and 2.

Firmware Image 1 and 2 - This two parts contains the main firmware. One is marked as "current", this firmare is running right now. When Firmware Upgrade starts the new Firmware Image is written to the second Image part which is not running. Due to this feature can not damage the firmware that works properly. After successful upload is marked the new one, the next startup will boot of it.

root@buildroot:~# metel-firmware-version

Shows the current version of Recovery and Firmware images.

root@buildroot:~# root@iplog:~# metel-firmware-version
FIRMWARE
========
image:   recovery
version: 2.0.8811

FIRMWARE
========
image:   image 1 (current)   //"current" label informs about right now running firmware
version: 12.0.8824

FIRMWARE
========
image:   image 2
version: 12.0.8811

1. Copy Firmware Image to IPLOG-GAMA

a) Remote Data Storage

Windows

To copy files between IPLOG-GAMA(Linux) and Windows there is a need third-party tool. Is possible use for example WinSCP.

• Download, Install and Open the WinSCP.

Connection Configuration

Host name - IP address of IPLOG-GAMA, the default IP address is on the housing.

User name - Default user name is root.

Connection Warning

For every new connection is there Warning message if you trust the remote device. Confirm by hit the YES or No and this new session will not be saved.

Upload firmware image file (.tar)

Select file to upload to the IPLOG-GAMA and hit the F5 button to start upload.

WinSCP starts image uploading

After successful upload close the WinSCP session.

Linux

SCP or secure copy allows secure transferring of files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts.

Example:

root@iplog:~# scp root@192.168.6.61:/home/user/12.0.8958.tar /tmp/

Command scp copy file 12.0.8958.tar of /home/user/ folder on remote pc root(user)@192.168.6.61(ip address) to local folder /tmp/ on IPLOG-GAMA.

b) Via Local USB

Create a file to /mnt/ directory by command mkdir

root@iplog:~# root@iplog:~# mkdir /mnt/usb/

Use the dmesg command which typically contains the messages produced by the device drivers.

root@iplog:~# dmesg

That prints the message buffer to screen. USB name is typically a sda1.

.
.
usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using atmel-ehci
usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=090c, idProduct=1000
usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-2: Product: USB DISK
usb 1-2: Manufacturer: SMI Corporation
usb 1-2: SerialNumber: AA04012700014703
usb-storage 1-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
scsi host0: usb-storage 1-2:1.0
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     USB2.0   FlashDisk        1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1974272 512-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/964 MiB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
.
.

Mount the USB (sda1) to /mnt/usb directory

root@iplog:~# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/