STSW-LINK007 on FreeBSD

[CeDeROM]

Hello world :)

Trying to upgrade firmware on series of STLINK-V3MODS on FreeBSD, downloaded 3.16.9 package from [1], after running:

java -jar STLinkUpgrade.jar

I got error message "Platform not supported (freebsd)".

Would it be possible to add support for FreeBSD? All should work as on Linux or macOS except serial port names here are /dev/cuaU0, /dev/cuaU1, etc. Ah I notices there are some dynamic libraries involved but these can be cross-compiled easily too let me know if you need support :)

Thanks :)

Tomek

[1] https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/stsw-link007.html

[Mike_ST]

Hello,

As far as I know, there is no plan for the ST-Link upgrade tool to support FreeBSD.

[CeDeROM]

Thanks @Mike_ST , how can I help to make this happen? Would it be possible to provide only firmware *.bin file so open-source tools can be used?

[Mike_ST]

Thank you for you help, but the STM32 ecosystem does not support FreeBSD, so I think it won't happen.

ST doesn't provide the binary file. You have to use the ST-Link Upgrade tool.

You can try to launch a linux VM under free BSD, maybe the upgrade process will work (never tried).

[CeDeROM]

Well, okay, at least firmware upgrade tool could be provided, not entire ecosystem, its just a matter of compilation existing solution for FreeBSD not much work :)

[S C]

The problematic for a new platform support is not only a one shot compilation, it also means validation and maintenance. And it's difficult to extract the ST-Link out of an overall ecosystem policy. Concerning STLinkUpgrade.jar, at least we would have to add the platform detection in the jar, but I don't know what would be required for the ST-Link library (is libusb available on FreeBSD, is a native compilation required and enough ... ?) For sure nothing will be done without an official decision, it's not only a matter of workload for this single task. I can discuss the point internally, but I share the Mike_ST's point of view: do not expect to have it soon, I'm sorry

[CeDeROM]

Yes, FreeBSD has LibUSB, I did the initial port of OpenOCD here, all software when written properly with no os-specific hardcodes should build out-of-the-box with make/gmake/cmake/ninja :) There are installers and vm images available at [1], OCI images for cloud are also available. You can install packages with `pkg` utility (just like `apt`). I am working on 14.2 release, but you can compile on 10 release and that will work on all above versions dues to compat layer :) Just let me know when you need any support in this area :)

Thank you for your time :)

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/where/