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I want to reprogram the external flash of a raspberry Pico via SWD line. This feature must be implemented in a different microcontroller, not from a Linux computer so the OpenOCD library cannot be used.

I already wrote a C library that is able to read and write in RAM and in core registers via SWD and I'm able to put the Cortex-M0+ into halt state.

I read many tutorials and documentation and those that are useful are:

but unfortunately they aren't clear enough.

Can you explain the sequence of commands that I should send to RP2040 to correctly upload the new firmware? Should I use bootrom functions to implement this operation? How can I call them?

Thanks for your help!

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    have you looked at the relevant code in openocd for the Pico? I've not, but it is not uncommon to load a small piece of code that handles the flash reading/writing. If openocd can do it, then life the code fragment that it downloads and/or simply mimic the methods it uses as you code will have to do much the same.
    – Kartman
    Nov 19, 2021 at 11:00
  • openocd writes the memory with this function, but I don't understand which registers it uses and what it writes into them
    – dima.91
    Nov 19, 2021 at 11:13
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    looks like it calls the bootrom functions via a trampoline. github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk/blob/… You'll have to do a bit of digging - I only found this with a cursory search
    – Kartman
    Nov 19, 2021 at 11:27
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    Not sure what you are trying to do, but note that J-Flash and Keil both seem to support external flash on the Pico: segger.com/news/… , github.com/GorgonMeducer/Pico_Template
    – Dmitry Grigoryev
    Nov 20, 2021 at 15:59

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