nlintn/moveloader

A bootloader for the stm32l4r5. Enabling reliable and safe firmware upgrades.

Moveloader

Documentation for users of the bootloader is available in the User Guide. To build the bootloader or pack it into a flash image with OS images, check out the Build Guide.

To make sure you have configured a device correctly for the bootloader to work, you can run a hardware test.

When writing code for the bootloader, you should use the following chip documentation for reference:

• Datasheet
• Reference Manual

To develop, you can either use the Dev Container configuration file in this repository (TL;DR: open VSCode, install the "Dev Containers" extension and then open this directory in VSCode, then "Reopen in Container"), or follow the setup guide below.

Install and setup (Linux)

Disclaimer: I tested this on Ubuntu-22.04 LTS

First you will need the following dependencies:

sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libusb-1.0 libusb-1.0-0-dev gdb-multiarch gcc-arm-none-eabi openocd

Note: On older Ubuntu (14.04/16.04) gdb-arm-none-eabi.

Then you need to create a symlink for the cross-debugger:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/gdb-multiarch /usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb

If you want to debug on QEMU you will also need this:

sudo apt-get install qemu-system-arm

On Arch: qemu-arch-extra)

Then download rustup:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

after rustup is successfully installed:

rustup target add thumbv7em-none-eabi

Now install the st-flash fork:

git clone --single-branch -b fix-stm32l4r5 https://github.com/bauen1/stlink.git /tmp/stlink
cd /tmp/stlink

make clean
make release
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

sudo rm -r /tmp/stlink

Now you should be able to get the bootloader running:

I strongly recommend using vscode (Could be alot of pain otherwise)

1. If you made the reasonable choice to use vscode just install the extension (extensions.json).
2. Plug in your STM32L4R5
3. Run the Debug (OpenOCD) configuration.
4. Programm should be compiled + flashed + debugger started -> Profit.

Useful commands

Use:

cargo size --bin stm-bootloader -- -A

To get a detailed view of your binary size (use --release for release)

Or:

cargo readobj --bin stm-bootloader -- --file-headers

For inspecting the file headers of the generated binary (use --release for release)