FLEXLOADER(1)

💖 FLEXLOADER(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual section for flexloader, and honestly? she's a little icon. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

flexloader — a GPL utility to configure SRAM based ALTERA devices via the ALTERA ByteBlaster 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

flexloader [options] [parport_dev] [rbf_filename]

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so like, flexloader is this small utility whose whole personality is configuring SRAM based ALTERA devices. she downloads a code to the device SRAM using the ALTERA ByteBlaster or a compatible JTAG programmer, and she chats with it through the parallel interface using parport. 💅

not to be that girl but you should have access rights to the parallel port. like, fr fr. no access rights = no vibes.

she should support the APEX20K, FLEX10K, FLEX6000 and ACEX1K families — though the author only ever tested her on a FLEX10K10 device, so bestie, iykyk. 🙈

and right now she currently only supports files in raw binary format (.rbf), but other formats such as HEX or TTF may be implemented later. the way that's giving ✨future roadmap✨. 🔥

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🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

• -d, --debug — print debug messages. she's telling you everything, main character energy 👑
• -q, --quiet — quiet mode, don't print any message. super useful when you're calling her from scripts 🤫
• -v — returns the program version. just the version. that's the whole vibe ⭐
• -h, --help — print help screen 🧚

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>. 🫶

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright (C) 2005 Aurelien Jarno

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. slay, honestly 💅

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 👀

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 💌

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's from January 09, 2005, and yeah the footer literally just says FLEXLOADER(1) again because that's her name and she's owning it. periodt. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶