FFADO-FIRE...DOWNLOADER(1)

✨ FFADO-FIRE...DOWNLOADER(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual page for ffado-fireworks-downloader 💖 this is your girl explaining it like we're on FaceTime at 2am, but every single flag is still here, no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

ffado-fireworks-downloader — the firmware download application for Echo Fireworks devices 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

ffado-fireworks-downloader [OPTION...] OPERATION

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

So the page says ffado-bridgeco-downloader right here (yes bestie, a whole different name, that's literally what it says, don't come for me 🙈) — and it lets you do firmware updates on Echo Fireworks devices under Linux. Linux girlies only, periodt.

OPERATION is the thing you actually wanna do. It's one of the keywords below, plus whatever arguments that keyword needs. Pick your fighter:

• list — lists the devices chilling on the FireWire bus. headcount time 🫶
• display — shows you info about a device and its firmware. it's giving "tell me everything" ✨
• upload FILE — uploads the firmware sitting inside FILE to the device. send it 🚀
• download FILE START_ADDR LEN — grabs the flash contents off the device. LEN bytes get downloaded starting at START_ADDR, and all of that gets written to the file FILE 💾
• verify FILE — checks that the firmware on the device actually matches the one in FILE. vibe check, firmware edition 🔍
• session_display — shows you info about the session on the device 👑
• session_info FILE — shows you info about the device session that's stored in FILE 📄
• session_download FILE — downloads the session content off the device and into FILE ⬇️
• session_upload FILE — uploads the session from FILE onto the device ⬆️

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h, --help — shows you a lil brief usage info and then dips. bye 👋
• -p, --port=NUM — tells it to use IEEE1394 port NUM 🔌
• -v, --verbose=LEVEL — makes it chatty. the higher the LEVEL, the more verbose the messages get. heads up tho: some of those verbose messages might only show up if FFADO was compiled with debugging enabled 👀
• -g, --guid=GUID — pick the GUID of the device you wanna interact with. if you don't specify one, it'll try to auto-detect a suitable device for you. so helpful, so iconic 💖
• -m, --magic=MAGIC — a magic number you literally have to obtain before this program will even work 🔮 specifying it on the command line means you accept the risks that come with this tool. the magic number can be obtained in the source code, iykyk 🧚

💀 NOTES 💀

Manipulating firmware can cause your device to stop working. The FFADO project accepts no responsibility if this occurs as a result of using this tool.

fr fr, not a drill. be careful out there bestie 😭

and that's the whole page, no notes left behind 🍓

signing off: this was ffado-fireworks-downloader, from the General Commands Manual, dated 27-Mar-2012 — yes she's an elder but she still ate 💅🌈⭐