PICOTOOL-OTP-LOAD(1)

🎀 picotool-otp-load — the manual, but make it cute 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to picotool-otp-load (yes, that's PICOTOOL-OTP-LOAD(1) if you're being fancy, it lives in the User Commands section of the manual, iykyk). This is the little guy that takes a row range sitting in a file and yeets it into OTP, then verifies it. ✨

💖 NAME 💖

picotool-otp-load — loads the row range stored in a file into OTP and verifies it. fr fr, that's the whole personality.

Data is 2 bytes/row for ECC, and 4 bytes/row for raw (and heads up: for raw, the MSB is ignored, she's just not invited 💅).

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

picotool otp load [-r] [-e] [-s <row>] [-i <filename>] <filename> [-t
<type>] [device-selection]

✨ OPTIONS ✨

🦋 Row options

• -r, --raw — sets raw 24-bit values. This is the default for BIN files, no cap.
• -e, --ecc — uses error correction ✨
• -s <row> — the start row to load at. psst, use 0x for hex, bestie.
• -i <filename> — include an extra otp definition 🫶

🍓 File to load row(s) from

• <filename> — the file name, that's it, that's the girl.
• -t <type> — specify the file type (json | bin) explicitly, ignoring the file extension. main character energy, she does NOT care what your file is named.

👑 Target device selection

• --bus <bus> — filter devices by USB bus number
• --address <addr> — filter devices by USB device address
• --vid <vid> — filter by vendor id
• --pid <pid> — filter by product id
• --ser <ser> — filter by serial number
• -f, --force — forces a device that is not in BOOTSEL mode but is running compatible code to reset, so the command can actually be executed. After executing the command (unless the command itself is a reboot), the device will be rebooted back to application mode. it's giving "move, I'm working" 🫶
• -F, --force-no-reboot — same dealio: forces a device that is not in BOOTSEL mode but is running compatible code to reset, so the command can be executed. After executing the command (unless the command itself is a reboot), the device will be left connected and accessible to picotool, but without the USB drive mounted. ngl, that last bit is the whole difference between -f and -F, so don't mix them up bestie 😭

🌈 lowkey important: both -f and -F hinge on the device running compatible code — this isn't a magic "make any random device work" button. and the reboot-after behaviour has that one exception: if the command you ran is a reboot, well. it already did the thing 💀

🧚 the cutest little sign-off 🧚

that's the whole page bestie, you ate 💅 — this was picotool 2.2.0-a4+dfsg, dated December 2025, and yes the manual page is literally called PICOTOOL-OTP-LOAD(1). slay, go flash something, periodt. 💖✨🎀