cargo-flash

This crate provides a cargo subcommand to flash ELF binaries onto ARM chips.

Various chip families including but not limited to nRF5x, STM32 and LPC800 can be flashed using DAPLink, ST-Link or J-Link. To check if your specific chip is supported, use cargo flash --list-chips

Installation

You can install this utility with cargo:

bash cargo install cargo-flash

Usage

You can use it like any cargo command would be used

bash cargo flash <args>

which will then build your binary and download the contents onto the connected target.

Examples

Flash the debug version of the current crate

bash cargo flash --chip nrf58122

Specifying manually what options should be used

bash cargo flash --release --chip nRF51822 --target thumbv6m-none-eabi --example gpio_hal_blinky

Use a custom chip definition from a non-builtin file

bash cargo flash --release --chip-description-path nRF51822.yaml --target thumbv6m-none-eabi --example gpio_hal_blinky

Manually selecting a chip

To manually select a chip, you can use the --chip <chip name> argument. The chip name is an identifier such as nRF51822 or STM32F042. Capitalization does not matter; Special characters do matter.

Specifying a chip family description file

You can add a temporary chip family description by using the --chip-description-path <chip description file path> or -c argument. You need to pass it the path to a valid yaml family description. All the targets of the family will then be added to the registry temporarily and will override existing variants with the same name. You can use this feature to tinker with a chip family description until it works and then submit it to upstream for inclusion.

Extracting a chip family description file from a CMSIS-Pack

You can extract the family description file by running target-gen on a .pack file with cargo run -- file.pack out_dir. You can obtain the pack from ARM for example. Their online registry is a good start :) You can also reference to an already unziped pack directory instead of the file.pack archive file.

Add more chip definitions

If you have a chip you want to flash, feel free to contribute to probe-rs.