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try to implement esp32s2 boot2 stage update#138

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hathach commentedJul 30, 2021

Draft PR to allow boot2 stage update for esp32s2. I have tried to update the boot2 binary with update-uf2, there is a couple of issue

There is a macro check to validate the address, though it is easily by passed by enabling unsafed writehttps://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/blob/master/components/spi_flash/esp_flash_api.c#L51
There is some meta data required for boot2 bin

Invalid image block, can't boot.ets_main.c 386

Digging to esptool.pyhttps://github.com/espressif/esptool/blob/master/esptool.py#L3488, look like it does some modification to bootlaoder image to add image size, flash mode, flash freq etc to the very frist 4 bytes (header). At this point, I don't think it is the worth effort to update it, since it seem rather unsafe. It is rather easy to flash boot2 update via rom bootloader. Boot2 won't change much anyway.

Originally posted by@hathach in#134 (comment)

PS: after giving a bit more thought, I think it is still worth updating, since ROM loader is there to unbrick. However, I don't quite feel comfortable following the esptool code, maybe if someone know where is the specs for the layout. We could get this done. I push my interim work to the branch herehttps://github.com/adafruit/tinyuf2/tree/esp32s2-update-boot2 . If anyone could help with meta data part, that would nail it.

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failed due to lacking meta data (boot2 size, flash freq, flash mode)added as headerhttps://github.com/espressif/esptool/blob/master/esptool.py#L3488(_update_image_flash_params)