I am considering developing on the Yocto project for an embedded Linux project (an industrial application) and I have a few questions for those with experience with embedded Linux in general — Yocto experience a bonus. Just need to get an idea of what is being commonly done in firmware updates.
I have a few requirements, that being authentication, a secure communications protocol, some type of rollback if the update failed. Also, if there is a way to gradually release the patch across the fleet of devices then that would also be interesting as I want to avoid bricked devices in the field.
How do you deploy updates/patches to field devices today – and how long did it take to develop it? Are there any other considerations I am missing?
Best Answer
You can look at Yocto's Wiki, there is a section regarding updating:
https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/System_Update