blisp/README.md

BLISP

Bouffalo Labs ISP (in-system-programming) tool & library: an open source tool to flash Bouffalo RISC-V MCUs.

NOTE: Library API and blisp tool cli arguments are not stable yet.

Supported MCUs

• bl60x - BL602 / BL604 / TG7100C / LF686 / LF688
• bl70x - BL702 / BL704 / BL706
  

Supported Devices

System	Windows	MacOS	Linux	FreeBSD
Pinecil V2
Pinecone

How to update Pinecil V2

Check out the wiki page.

Building from code

Clone repository

If you have not cloned this repository locally; clone the git repository locally by running

git clone --recursive https://github.com/pine64/blisp.git
cd blisp
git submodule update --init --recursive

If vendor/argtable3 and vendor/libserialport/ are empty, this last step has failed and should be investigated.

Build the library and command line utility

For building blisp command line tool, use following commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DBLISP_BUILD_CLI=ON ..
cmake --build .

Need more build details? See here.

Usage

For BL70X, BL61X, BL808 and BL606P, connected via USB, you can use following command, which will auto-detect serial port on Windows:

.\blisp.exe write --chip=bl70x --reset .\name_of_firmware.bin
or
.\blisp.exe write -c bl70x --reset .\name_of_firmware.bin

For BL60X, you need to specify also the serial port path:

blisp write --chip bl60x --reset -p /dev/ttyUSB0 name_of_firmware.bin

If you wish to see additional debugging, set the environmental variable LIBSERIALPORT_DEBUG before running. You can either export this in your shell or change it for a single run via

  LIBSERIALPORT_DEBUG=y ./a.out write -c bl70x -p /dev/tty.usbmodem0000000200001

Because this is done at the lowest level of serial communication, the displays aren't packet-aware or know about the chip's command set or such. This is really only useful for debugging systems-level issues withing the device or blisp itself.