New SwissMicros Firmware Soon?

[rprosperi]

(03-06-2016 10:28 PM)Sylvain Cote Wrote:  

(03-06-2016 09:36 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  It sure is a good thing Macs are less complicated to use than PCs. Just imagine if they were harder.

Remember that the Mac has two personality, the UI side which is for the all users and the BSD/Unix side for the technical users.
Here, I am just importing the GNU tools into the BSD layer of the Mac through MacPort and using the LPC flashing tool (lpc21isp) to program the MCU.

I am currently reading the source code of the lpc21isp tool and the user manual of the Cortex M0 (LPC 1115) to better understand what is going on.
At this point it seems that the VCP drivers for the Mac is not handling correctly one of the hardware flow control line who is probably mapped to the PIO0_1 GPIO line of the MCU.
This has the effect of not putting the MCU in ISP mode and then not being able to flash it.

In the meantime, I was able to use the Windows tools in a VM to do the flashing, but I prefer to use OSX to do it.

Sylvain

Sounds extremely technical. Do you know any embedded systems programmers? Oh, wait.... umm... you're all good. Nice of you to document it so thoroughly. If I had to do this on a Mac, I'd like instructions just like these. Meanwhile, though it was quite easy to do on Windows, something went wrong and the flash programing was apparently not properly completed (bad file?) and I have an error. Waiting for a reply from SM, which usually arrives incredibly fast.