• u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Even some decent modern Wi-Fi routers have such protection. There’s working and backup partition. If a firmware update fails, it boots using the previous working partition.

    This is a better explanation (in this case for Cisco Linksys EA3500):

    Like several other Linksys devices, the EA3500 has a dual firmware layout: working and backup partitions. Unless you manually choose which partition by doing a manual uboot/tftp install, firmware flashes occur on the backup partition and the EA3500 shall reboot from the backup partition following from a firmware flash. The backup partition becomes the new working partition when the reboot was successful. The former working partition becomes the new backup partition.

    Source: https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/ea3500

    • Oderus@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Motherboards for years have a backup firmware just in case you fry the primary firmware.

      This Ford issue is laughable.