Dear All,
 While I was looking for Linux tools/source code for programming MSP430
F54xx using BSL from Linux .
 please let me know if you have any Linux tools/source code which I could
use to do BSL based firmware update of MSP430 F54xx (or MSP430 F5419 ) ?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards
Padua


Dmitry Zuikov wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> There is some information about msp430x5xx MCUs that I have discovered.
> Please correct me if I wrong.
> 
> 1) gdbproxy is not work and not even going to work with the 54XX
> devices, regardless of version HIL.dll and MSP430.dll. 
> 
> This is because the 54xx are devices with X architecture and there are
> some changes in JTAG for thouse MCU's. JTAG version is changed too,
> that's one of reasons (but not the only one) why gdbproxy is broken for
> the 54XX. JTAG Memory writing routines are changed also.
> 
> 2) fetproxy is in the same situation. Probably it works with the older
> series, but not with 54XX. 
> 
> 3) Parallel port JTAG adapters (like Olimex) do not work for the same
> reason
> 
> 4) BSL for the 54XX is significantly changed too. So old BSL tools are
> also useless for the 54XX.
> 
> For the moment I see only one way to program 54XX under Linux / mspgcc
> toolchain - to use self-made programmer like GoodFET11 ( see
> http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/ ) and implement JTAG functions manually.
> 
> Personally I have got the GoodFET11 board and make some JTAG functions
> to work. Actually, I have ported a code from the SLAU265a (for
> MSP430Xv2). For the moment it may read, write RAM and FLASH, set
> registers, acquire and release JTAG and so on. I'm going to write kind
> of working programmer to read, write and erase flash memory in a week.
> If anyone interested in the results or have any questions or need
> sources - please write to [email protected]
> 
> The useful documents regarding this issue: SLAU265a, SLAU208d
> 
> PS.  Why there are only attempts to use the MSP-FET430UIF with
> proprietary TI's code or with reverse-engeenered protocol as fetproxy
> does, but there is no any attempts to write an open firmware for
> MSP-FET430UIF ? The FET is well-documented, the source code from
> SLAU265a seems enough to implement all functions required by gdb and
> gdbproxy.
> 
> 
> ---
> Regards,
> Dmitry
> 
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