IMX-USB-LOADER(1)

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👑 IMX-USB-LOADER — the imx_uart era 💅

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about imx_uart, and this one lives in section 1 of the manual, page name IMX-USB-LOADER. it's giving "tiny tool, huge power", fr fr. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

imx_uart — a program that uploads a u-boot image to the device, and then runs it. that's the whole job. iconic. 👑

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

imx_uart [-v | --verify] [-d | --debugmode] [-n | --no-rtscts]
         [-N | --no-association] {UART} {CONFIG} {FILE} [-lLOADADDR]
         [-sSIZE]

imx_uart [{-h | --help}]

like, {UART}, {CONFIG}, {FILE} — those are the big three, no skipsies. and yes, -l and -s are stuck to their values with no space, that's just the vibe. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this manual page documents the imx_uart command briefly — short and sweet, we love that for her.

real talk though: this manpage was written for the Debian distribution because the original program straight up doesn't have a manual page. so we made one. you're welcome. 🫶

what imx_uart actually does is upload an image to the device memory and then run it. and because of that, it is able to de-brick the device that's supported by this tool. de-bricking?? in THIS economy?? she ate and left no crumbs. 🔥

✨ OPTIONS ✨

she follows the usual GNU command line syntax — long options start with two dashes (-), as always. here's the whole summary, no gatekeeping:

  • -v, --verify — verifies the downloaded data. double-check era. ✅
  • -d, --debugmode — turns on debug logs. when you need to see everything. 👀
  • -n, --no-rtscts — don't use RTS/CTS flow control.
  • -N, --no-association — don't do the serial Association Phase.
  • -h, --help — shows a summary of the options. the classic. the goat. 🐐

✨ FILES ✨

  • /usr/share/imx-usb-loader/imx-loader.d/*.conf — the system-wide configuration file that controls how imx_uart behaves. she's the main character of config files, periodt. 💖

✨ DIAGNOSTICS ✨

the following diagnostics may show up on stderr:

imx_uart hands back some return codes, and you can absolutely use them in scripts. here's the whole lineup:

  • 0 — Program exited successfully. 🎉
  • 1 — Something wrong. 😭

that's it. that's the list. two codes. lowkey poetic.

✨ BUGS ✨

the upstream BTS lives at https://github.com/boundarydevices/imx_uart_loader/issues — take your bugs there, bestie, they're the ones who can fix them. 🐛

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

✨ AUTHOR ✨

  • Ying-Chun Liu <paulliu@debian.org> — wrote this manpage for the Debian system. 🫡

Copyright © 2017 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)

this manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

on Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Lesser General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2.1.

ngl, that's the whole page. go forth and de-brick. 🌈

anywayyy — this was imx_uart, dated 11/20/2022, living on the IMX-USB-LOADER(1) page. tysm for reading, mwah 💋💖✨

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