Generating method for firmware image files

Abstract

The invention provides a generating method for firmware image files. A set graphical interface comprises a block selection area, an address selection area and an image file generation area. The generating method includes the steps that the block selection area comprises a fundamental area, operational orders are received in the fundamental area, and one or more to-be-generated-image-file block procedures are selected; the operational orders are received in the fundamental area to determine whether partition addresses and versions of fundamental block procedures are correct or not, if the partition addresses and the versions of the fundamental block procedures are correct, the operational orders are received in the address selection area to select storage addresses of the image files of fundamental blocks, and when it is determined that the image files of the fundamental blocks are generated, the operational orders are received in the image file generating area to select the generating modes of the fundamental-block image files, and verifying information of the fundamental-block image files is automatically generated and displayed; the fundamental-block image files are issued and burned to a computer or a flash memory of a server.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a method for generating and saving a firmware image file, in particular to a method for generating a firmware image file by a graphical interface. Background technique [0002] At present, firmware is the software that is the most basic and bottom-level work of a system, and in hardware devices, firmware is the soul of hardware devices, because some hardware devices have no other software components except firmware, so firmware also determines the function of hardware devices and performance. [0003] The firmware is generally stored in the EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) or FLASH chip in the device, and is generally a program that can be upgraded by the user through a specific refresh program. Generally speaking, the software responsible for the most basic and bottom-level work of a digital product is called firmware, such as the basic input / output system BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) on the computer mother...

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In addition, because the firmware image file (firmware image) can be easily read from a flash memory chip without professional knowledge, it can also be downloaded from the manufacturer's website to update the firmware, so the firmware image file plays a very important role. However, in the existing generation technology of firmware image file, only one firmware script can be used to make it, and after execution, the image file of the basic block (such as bootload, bootCfg, Image, ISTR, etc.) will be directly output into a Firmware image file for subsequent burning process

However, the firmware script (firmware script) is very inconvenient to use, except that there is no graphical interface to use, and the storage address of the above image files is limited, that is to say, only specific files (bootload, bootCfg, Image , ISTR) is stored at a specific address. In addition, it is impossible to flexibly add image files of other blocks (such as CPLD, FPGA, PSU FW, etc.), which will prolong the production and release time of image files

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