djsundog
/
circuitpython
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

stm32/mboot: Update README to describe WB and littlefs support. 

Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
This commit is contained in:
Damien George 2020-06-26 21:26:06 +10:00
parent 67fd58bbd2
commit 0a8ce0d568
1 changed files with 23 additions and 6 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

29
ports/stm32/mboot/README.md
View File

@ -2,11 +2,11 @@ Mboot - MicroPython boot loader
===============================
Mboot is a custom bootloader for STM32 MCUs, and currently supports the
STM32F4xx and STM32F7xx families. It can provide a standard USB DFU interface
on either the FS or HS peripherals, as well as a sophisticated, custom I2C
STM32F4xx, STM32F7xx and STM32WBxx families. It can provide a standard USB DFU
interface on either the FS or HS peripherals, as well as a sophisticated, custom I2C
interface. It can also load and program firmware in .dfu.gz format from a
filesystem. It can fit in 16k of flash space, but all features enabled requires
32k.
filesystem, either FAT, littlefs 1 or littlfs 2.
It can fit in 16k of flash space, but all features enabled requires 32k.
How to use
----------
@ -63,6 +63,15 @@ How to use
#define MBOOT_FSLOAD (1)
and then enable one or more of the following depending on what filesystem
support is required in Mboot (note that the FAT driver is read-only and
quite compact, but littlefs supports both read and write so is rather
large):
#define MBOOT_VFS_FAT (1)
#define MBOOT_VFS_LFS1 (1)
#define MBOOT_VFS_LFS2 (1)
2. Build the board's main application firmware as usual.
3. Build mboot via:
@ -133,10 +142,18 @@ are located and what filename to program. The elements to use are:
`u32` means unsigned 32-bit little-endian integer.
The firmware to load must be a gzip'd DfuSe file (.dfu.gz) and stored within a
FAT formatted partition.
FAT or littlefs formatted partition.
The provided fwupdate.py script contains helper functions to call into Mboot
with the correct data, and also to update Mboot itself.
with the correct data, and also to update Mboot itself. For example on PYBD
the following will update the main MicroPython firmware from the file
firmware.dfu.gz stored on the default FAT filesystem:
import fwupdate
fwupdate.update_mpy('firmware.dfu.gz', 0x80000000, 2 * 1024 * 1024)
The 0x80000000 value is the address understood by Mboot as the location of
the external SPI flash, configured via `MBOOT_SPIFLASH_ADDR`.
Example: Mboot on PYBv1.x
-------------------------