Overview

This is an app which works in concert with out-of-device program to populate device flash. Program assumes programmer can directly write to program memory. App polls for incoming commands (load, erase etc).

You can use this together with gdb user-defined functions in compiler/gdbmacros/flash_loader.gdb. Or you can write your own.

Example of how to use this with scripts

Here's a target for nrf52dk, app is built as RAM resident.

[marko@IsMyLaptop:~/src/incubator-mynewt-blinky]$ newt target show fl_nrf52dk
targets/fl_nrf52dk
    app=@apache-mynewt-core/apps/flash_loader
    bsp=@apache-mynewt-core/hw/bsp/nordic_pca10040
    build_profile=optimized
    syscfg=FLASH_LOADER_DL_SZ=0x8000:RAM_RESIDENT=1

And then have this as the gdb script file

[marko@IsMyLaptop:~/src/incubator-mynewt-blinky]$ cat loader_nrf52.gdb
set pagination off

shell sh -c "trap '' 2; JLinkGDBServer -device nRF52 -speed 4000 -if SWD -port 3333 -singlerun > logfile.txt 2>&1 &"
target remote localhost:3333
mon reset
restore bin/targets/fl_nrf52dk/app/apps/flash_loader/flash_loader.elf.bin binary 0x20000000
symbol-file bin/targets/fl_nrf52dk/app/apps/flash_loader/flash_loader.elf
set $sp=*(int *)0x20000000
set $pc=*(int *)0x20000004
b blink_led
c

source repos/apache-mynewt-core/compiler/gdbmacros/flash_loader.gdb
mon go

fl_load nrf52.img 0 0x42000
mon reset
quit

and then to run it:

arm-elf-linux-gdb -x loader_nrf52.gdb