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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2008
Frank Haverkamp, Tuebingen, DE;
Gerald Kreissig, Herrenberg, DE;
Joshua W. Boyer, Rochester, MN (US);
Shaun A. Wetzstein, Rochester, MN (US);
Frank Haverkamp, Tuebingen, DE;
Gerald Kreissig, Herrenberg, DE;
Joshua W. Boyer, Rochester, MN (US);
Shaun A. Wetzstein, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and program storage device for updating a non-volatile memory in an embedded system is provided. The invention includes detaching the non-volatile memory from all expectable non-volatile memory references, creating a temporary, volatile-memory file system for allocation of volatile memory space as needed for the non-volatile memory update process, copying all procedural code required to perform the non-volatile memory update into the volatile memory, changing the system search path definitions temporarily to point to the volatile memory, and performing the non-volatile memory update.