OTA updates

Surviving the EU Cyber Resilience Act

by Burkhard Stubert
2025/11/072025/11/29

As a machine or device manufacturer, you probably have some sleepless nights because of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). What do you have to do so that you can sell your products after 11 December 2027 and don’t have to pay penalties threatening the existence of your company?

The commands for updating u-boot using an A/B strategy

Updating U-Boot with an A/B Strategy

by Burkhard Stubert
2024/05/132025/10/28
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Unlike consumer devices, machines, ECUs or medical devices are in the field for 15 or more years. There inevitably comes the time in their life, when you must update their boot loader. I’ll show you how to do this from an embedded Linux system running on an NXP iMX8M Plus. You can adapt the method to other SoCs and use it for OTA updates, as well.