PICOTOOL-UF2-INFO(1)

📦 version 2.2.0-a4, in ubuntu stonking

🌸 PICOTOOL-UF2-INFO — like, the user-commands one, bestie 💅

okay so this is a page from the picotool manual (User Commands section, yes she's official ✨), and she's here to tell you everything about snooping on a UF2 download. let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

picotool-uf2-info — print info about a UF2 download. that's it, that's the whole vibe 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

picotool uf2 info [device-selection]

so you run picotool uf2 info and optionally you can tell her which device you're talking to. periodt 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

🎀 Target device selection

so like, how do we even find the device you're talking about?? girl, here's the menu 😌

  • --bus <bus> — filter your devices by the USB bus number. narrows the search down, iykyk 🔥
  • --address <addr> — filter by USB device address. very main character energy, very specific 💜
  • --vid <vid> — filter by vendor id. you know, the VID 🫶
  • --pid <pid> — filter by product id. the PID, matching set with the VID, iconic honestly 💖
  • --ser <ser> — filter by serial number. she's got a name and you can search by it 🌸
  • -f, --force — okay so this one forces a device that is NOT in BOOTSEL mode, but IS running compatible code, to reset so the command can actually run. lowkey aggressive but we respect it 💅 and heads up: after the command runs — unless the command itself is a reboot — the device gets rebooted back into application mode. so she goes right back where she came from, no cap ✨
  • -F, --force-no-reboot — same forcing situation bestie: a device that's not in BOOTSEL mode but is running compatible code gets reset so the command can execute. but the difference — and this is the whole point — after the command runs (again, unless the command itself is a reboot), the device is left connected and accessible to picotool, but WITHOUT the USB drive mounted. so it's still there, just unplugged from the vibe of being a drive 🍓
ngl the force flags are powerful, so use them on purpose, not by accident, fr fr 😭

🌈 that's a wrap 🌈

that's the whole page, bestie, every single flag accounted for, we ate and left no crumbs 👑

and for the cute sign-off: this is picotool version 2.2.0-a4+dfsg, dated December 2025. she's a legend, she's iconic, she's from the User Commands manual section. mwah 💋🧚

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