Facts about ccsbootloader.exe

[bdeb]

Compiler: 5.115
uP: 18F16Q41
IDE: MPLAB-X 6.0

First a big "thank you" to all gurus who share their knowledge here!
Read a gazillion posts about bootloading and now have it working like clockwork after cleaning up examples.

For production, I want to use the command-line ccsbootloader.exe, but could not find a trace of manual anywhere. So I had a peek at the code..

Options seem to be:
PORT=COMx
BAUD=xxxxx
DEBUG=filename
DEBUGT=filename (As above but with timestamps)
NOPROMPT (Have no clue)
MODE2X (Documented in .c code)
VIDPID=vvvvpppp (Lock to one USB adapter??)
DTR (Still clueless)

Anyone?

On the positive side, it works excellent at 115.200 Baud and even without
changing DeviceManager-settings of buffers and handshake.
Seems it only sends one row (<50 byte) at a time and then waits for ACK/XON.

Tested and true for Win7 on benchtop and Win10 on Intel NUC,
both via FTDI USB->TTL adapters.


Will test more with BOOTBLOCK and MVECEN on Q41 to see if they play nice together with my code..


Happy holidays from Sweden!

/Björn

[Ttelmah]

DTR is to use DTR handshaking.
NOPROMPT means it works silently. Otherwise it puts up a status display.

[bdeb]

Thank you Ttelmah, the NOPROMPT will come in handy for me.

All the best:

/Björn