imx_uart(1)

imx_uart1

Program to upload an u-boot image to the device and run

Usage

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

imx_uart [{-h | --help}]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the imx_uart command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

imx_uart is a program that can upload an image to the device memory and run. Thus it is able to de-brick the device supported by this tool.

Options

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-v, --verify

Verify downloaded data.

-d, --debugmode

Enable debug logs.

-n, --no-rtscts

Do not use RTS/CTS flow control.

-N, --no-association

Do not do serial Association Phase.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

Files

/usr/share/imx-usb-loader/imx-loader.d/*.conf

The system-wide configuration file to control the behaviour of imx_uart.

Diagnostics

The following diagnostics may be issued on stderr:

imx_uart provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts:

CodeDiagnostic
0Program exited successfully.
1Something wrong.

Releases

4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12–13

Bugs

The upstreams BTS can be found at https://github.com/boundarydevices/imx_uart_loader/issues.

Author

Ying-Chun Liu <[email protected]>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

From imx-usb-loader 0~git20200517.30b43d69-2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.