Query regarding Firmware reconciliation to CPE

Prashant Upadhyaya praupadhyaya at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 22:59:21 EDT 2015


Thanks Manny, Zaid for sharing your insight on this one !

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:16 AM, Manny Veloso <manny.veloso at smartrg.com> wrote:
> We try to keep the following in the firmware filename:
>
> * vendor (CA_PBCA in our case)
> * version
> * customer (if custom to a customer)
> * build number
> * device type
>
> As a side note, you may or may not be able to rename a firmware file and
> have it work. For some vendors the name is significant, and the current FW
> will use the name of the firmware file to validate (and reject) the image.
>
> --
> Manny Veloso
>
> Sr. Solutions Engineer
> Smartrg.com
>
>
>
>
> On 8/13/15, 2:25 AM, "Users on behalf of Zaid Abdulla"
> <users-bounces at lists.genieacs.com on behalf of zaid at genieacs.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Aug 4, 2015, at 07:35 AM, Prashant Upadhyaya wrote:
>>> I was looking for some best practices for Firmware file for CPE.
>>> Eg. should I invent a file like <VersionNumberOfFirmware>.bin so that
>>> the version number can be easily dug out from filename itself, or is
>>> there any better choice.
>>> Perhaps the CPE guys can educate from their fielded experience.
>>>
>>> Further are there any nuances in firmware reconcilation eg. only if
>>> the CPE is at a lower version than what is available at ACS should the
>>> firmware be upgraded etc.
>>
>>There are no best practices that I know of. But sticking to one naming
>>convention is more important than the exact convention you'll follow.
>>
>>Here's a few suggestions from my experience:
>>
>>- Include the hardware model to avoid potential name conflicts.
>>
>>- Custom builds should be marked as such.
>>
>>- Unless two image files are identical byte by byte, they should never
>>have the same version number. So when doing rapid test builds with minor
>>tweaks for testing and feedback always use distinct version numbers.
>>
>>Zaid
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