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Flashing tool from usb-flasher/ directory can be used to flash the
firmware over USB.
For example to build and flash your own firmware you could run these
commands:
# save the original firmware in case you want to restore it
./usb-flasher/ppkb-flasher info > saved-info.txt
./usb-flasher/ppkb-flasher --rom-out saved-rom.bin read
# build the new firmware (you may need sdcc 4.1, older versions may
# miscompile the firmware)
(cd firmware && ./build.sh)
# flash the new firmware
./usb-flasher/ppkb-flasher --rom-in firmware/build/fw.bin write reset
Full help output
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Usage: ppkb-flasher [--rom-in <path>] [--rom-out <path>] [--verbose]
[--help] [<read|write|info|reset>...]
Options:
-i, --rom-in <path> Specify path to binary file you want to flash.
-o, --rom-out <path> Specify path where you want to store the contents
of code ROM read from the device.
-s, --rom-size <size> Specify how many bytes of code rom to flash
starting from offset 0x2000 in the rom file.
-v, --verbose Show details of what's going on.
-h, --help This help.
Commands:
info Display information about the firmware.
read Read ROM from the device to --rom-out file.
write Flash ROM file to the device from --rom-in.
reset Perform software reset of the MCU.
Format of the ROM files is a flat binary. Only the part of it starting
from 0x2000 will be flashed. Use -s to specify how many bytes to write.
Pinephone keyboard flashing tool 1.0
Written by Ondrej Jirman <megi@xff.cz>, 2021
Licensed under GPLv3, see https://xff.cz/git/pinephone-keyboard/ for
more information.