tinyboot docs

Documentation for using, integrating, and extending tinyboot.

If you’re new here, start with the top-level README quick start, then come back for deeper topics.

Tutorial

• Getting Started — toolchain, tools, and your first successful flash

Guides

• Flash modes: system-flash vs user-flash
• Transports: UART, RS-485, DXL TTL
• GPIO-controlled boot mode selection — BOOT0 circuits for chips with hardware boot pins
• App integration — wire the tinyboot app side into your firmware
• Remote firmware updates — the end-to-end OTA flow
• Building your bootloader from an example

Reference

• Porting to a new MCU family
• Adding a new chip series
• Design notes — motivation, the 1920-byte budget, unsafe policy
• Protocol reference — wire format, frames, commands
• Boot state machine — state transitions, metadata layout
• CLI reference
• tinyboot-ch32 reference

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting guide — symptoms, likely causes, fixes

Contributing

• Contributing — dev setup, tests, hardware validation