Fix for PIC32-PINGUINO-MICRO Bootloader

Started by misjob, November 05, 2014, 10:18:30 PM

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misjob

The bootloaders for the PINGUINO-MICRO that can be downloaded from a number of places on Internet are not working.
ex:
https://github.com/PinguinoIDE/pinguino-bootloaders/tree/master/p32/usb
https://code.google.com/p/pinguino32/source/browse/#svn%2Fbranches%2Fx.3%2Fextra%2Fbootloaders%2F32bit%253Fstate%253Dclosed

The issue seems to be related to the configuration bits since I were able to get it to work if I copied the configuration bit data from the MPIDE hex file "MX4-Bootloader_Olimex_PIC32_Pinguino.hex" in:
https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/PIC32/PIC32-PINGUINO-MICRO/resources/MPIDE_library_PIC32-Pinguino-Micro.zip

It is not really a good idea so it would be nice if someone could look into that.

Here is the working config
:020000040000fa
:020000041fc01b
:042ff400d979f8ff90
:020000040000fa
:020000041fc01b
:042ff8005b0a6aff07
:020000040000fa
:020000041fc01b
:042ffc00ffffff7f55

JohnS

"not working" - when don't it/they work (for you)?

I have the equivalent board and works fine.  No "fix" required!

John

misjob

My board lost the bootloader when I was testing UECIDE so I tried to restore it using a PICkit 2 and the ICSP adapter.
Programming and verifying the PIC32 worked fine but the board was dead. No blinking LEDs and no USB device detected by Windows.


JohnS

Weird.  Mine does not need the values you give and works fine.  I just read back its DEVCFG words to check.

I suggest others reading this thread be very cautious what they do!

John

misjob

Strange indeed. The problem is unfortunately very repeatable on my board.

I will have to build it from source and see what's going on.

JohnS

The bootloader from Olimex has been said to work.  Did you try it?

It's the one named PINGUINO_BOOT+DEMO.hex (may be .zip)

John