23 Jun
2015
23 Jun
'15
12:49 p.m.
On Jun 23, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Sean Conner <spc at
conman.org> wrote:
...
It could be due to an unforseen situation not considered by the designers.
Several years ago a friend of mine bricked at CAR (BMW I believe---it was a
high end German car in any case). He was updating the firmware on the car
when the power cut out, leaving the firmware in an inconsistent state. The
fix required an engineer from Germany to fly to the US ...
-spc (Some things you just don't think about ? )
True. But any designer who implements firmware update without considering the possibility
of power failure is not qualified for the job.
paul