c2port.rst (2951B)
1.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 2.. include:: <isonum.txt> 3 4=============== 5C2 port support 6=============== 7 8(C) Copyright 2007 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> 9 10This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 11it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 12the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 13(at your option) any later version. 14 15This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 16but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 17MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 18GNU General Public License for more details. 19 20 21 22Overview 23-------- 24 25This driver implements the support for Linux of Silicon Labs (Silabs) 26C2 Interface used for in-system programming of micro controllers. 27 28By using this driver you can reprogram the in-system flash without EC2 29or EC3 debug adapter. This solution is also useful in those systems 30where the micro controller is connected via special GPIOs pins. 31 32References 33---------- 34 35The C2 Interface main references are at (https://www.silabs.com) 36Silicon Laboratories site], see: 37 38- AN127: FLASH Programming via the C2 Interface at 39 https://www.silabs.com/Support Documents/TechnicalDocs/an127.pdf 40 41- C2 Specification at 42 https://www.silabs.com/pages/DownloadDoc.aspx?FILEURL=Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/an127.pdf&src=SearchResults 43 44however it implements a two wire serial communication protocol (bit 45banging) designed to enable in-system programming, debugging, and 46boundary-scan testing on low pin-count Silicon Labs devices. Currently 47this code supports only flash programming but extensions are easy to 48add. 49 50Using the driver 51---------------- 52 53Once the driver is loaded you can use sysfs support to get C2port's 54info or read/write in-system flash:: 55 56 # ls /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/ 57 access flash_block_size flash_erase rev_id 58 dev_id flash_blocks_num flash_size subsystem/ 59 flash_access flash_data reset uevent 60 61Initially the C2port access is disabled since you hardware may have 62such lines multiplexed with other devices so, to get access to the 63C2port, you need the command:: 64 65 # echo 1 > /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/access 66 67after that you should read the device ID and revision ID of the 68connected micro controller:: 69 70 # cat /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/dev_id 71 8 72 # cat /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/rev_id 73 1 74 75However, for security reasons, the in-system flash access in not 76enabled yet, to do so you need the command:: 77 78 # echo 1 > /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/flash_access 79 80After that you can read the whole flash:: 81 82 # cat /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/flash_data > image 83 84erase it:: 85 86 # echo 1 > /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/flash_erase 87 88and write it:: 89 90 # cat image > /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/flash_data 91 92after writing you have to reset the device to execute the new code:: 93 94 # echo 1 > /sys/class/c2port/c2port0/reset