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We're using Greenhills Multi IDE and Greenhills Debug Probe to program and debug our target system (a Coldfire based, bare metal system). Currently I flash the target using the IDE debugger GUI, but I would prefer to use a command line interface to do it.

The documentation is fairly sketchy, and only gives a very simple example. As far as I can tell I should be able to use grun with gflash to do this, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which GUI fields map to which grun options. Anyone with any experience of this?

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Basically I need to be able to specify (see image above):

Flash device (this one I've got figured out I think)

  • Base address
  • Image file (we use raw images)
  • Offset in flash
  • Alternate RAM base
  • Alternate flash utility
  • Possibly also alternate MBS script

Any tips, tricks, or pointers to better documentation than the standard GHS one? Would be much appreciated!

Bjorn Rudolfsson
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    You pay not a small amount of money for the tools, so one could expect their support to be the first place to ask. – too honest for this site Dec 06 '18 at 15:28
  • Sounds like production programming...? If so, you'll probably want some other tool for that. Like... a stand-alone production programmer. – Lundin Dec 06 '18 at 16:10
  • Please check the GHS documentation. It is not freely available so i cannot give any further information. – Rishikesh Raje Dec 07 '18 at 03:45
  • @toohonestforthissite Indeed, and I may have to go through the official support, but experience is that it's nearly always faster to check with other users first – Bjorn Rudolfsson Dec 07 '18 at 12:12
  • @Lundin No, we're not at production stage yet, it's just that being able to script this would make my life that much easier. – Bjorn Rudolfsson Dec 07 '18 at 12:13
  • @RishikeshRaje I have access to the documentation, but as mentioned above it's not particularly forthcoming on this subject. Or do you have a specific reference to the appropriate section in the docs? – Bjorn Rudolfsson Dec 07 '18 at 12:14
  • @BjornRudolfsson Surely their debugger must support some manner of custom scripting without needing command line for it? – Lundin Dec 07 '18 at 12:17
  • Inm that case you should consider using free of charge tools like OpenOCV and the gnu tools. I'm not sure. The compiler supports ColdFire, not sure about OpenOCV, but I well know you can script that excellently directly or indirectly (via Telnet or gdb-server protocol) with little effort. – too honest for this site Dec 07 '18 at 12:28

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Is below screenshot from debugger command reference is of any help? You can use it to download your source on HW. I will be able to share more details is this helps. Or you can share your solution if you had already found it.

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Vaibhav Chauhan
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I used mpadmin for this purpose.

mpadmin -update <IP-addr_of_your-probe | -usb> firmware.frm
FrodeTennebo
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