"If you go too far in 'personalizing' the bootloader you will end up having to make a ton of PC code, if you 'go easy' on the 'personalization, you may end up being able to use FLIP as is. "


That is one of my problems. I won't be able to use FLIP, so I will need to produce custom sofwtare that will automate this task as no user is available.

The controller is running on WinCE and speaks with multiple units using a custom 485 protocol. Each unit has 9 Atmel Processors, which each have their own hard wired address read at boot. Their could be up to 144 processors connected to the 485 line at any given time that the controller is speaking to (sequentially)

The controller also receives commands over TCP/IP from a central source. This source wants to be able to send out a hex file over TCP/IP, then have the controller automatically upload that to specific processors at the other end. There can be no user involvement/input as these sites are remote.


Is this 'feasible'? I guess so, but also, how reliable would something like this be? I guess that's down to the code & comms mainly, but I'm wondering is this setup is going to cause more problems than it solves...