Overview

These are the release notes for the i.MX RT1015 Flashloader. For additional information and getting started instructions, check Getting Started section of this document.

The device Flashloader is an application that is loaded into the internal RAM of the device. The Flashloader is designed to work as a second stage bootloader for this device. It detects communication on one of the supported peripherals (USB-HID or UART), downloads a user application, and writes the application to external serial NOR or serial NAND flash device. The Flashloader is initially loaded by MfgTool which then helps in programming the flash. Alternately, flashloader can also be loaded using sdphost command line application and blhost application can be used for flash programming.

This release includes the PC-hosted MfgTool application. This application is used for downloading user-application to flash device in both development and production phases. This release also includes the elftosb command-line application. It is used to generate a bootable image for the device ROM and generate a programmable image supported by Flashloader.