BLISP

Bouffalo Labs ISP (in-system-programming) tool & library: an open source tool to flash Bouffalo RISC-V MCUs.

NOTE: Library API and blisp tool cli arguments are not stable yet.

Supported MCUs

bl60x - BL602 / BL604 / TG7100C / LF686 / LF688
bl70x - BL702 / BL704 / BL706

Supported Devices

System	Windows	MacOS	Linux	FreeBSD
Pinecil V2
Pinecone

How to update Pinecil V2

Download the newest release of Blisp updater here.

Check out the wiki page for install instructions.

Building from code

Clone repository

If you have not cloned this repository locally; clone the git repository locally by running

git clone --recursive https://github.com/pine64/blisp.git
cd blisp
git submodule update --init --recursive

If vendor/argtable3 and vendor/libserialport/ are empty, this last step has failed and should be investigated.

Build the library and command line utility

For building blisp command line tool, use following commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DBLISP_BUILD_CLI=ON ..
cmake --build .

For building against preinstalled system libraries of the used vendor libraries (e.g. for use by system maintainers), additionally define BLISP_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES, e.g. using following commands:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DBLISP_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=ON -DBLISP_BUILD_CLI=ON ..
cmake --build .

Need more build details? See here.

Usage

For BL70X, BL61X, BL808 and BL606P, connected via USB, you can use following command, which will auto-detect serial port on Windows:

.\blisp.exe write --chip=bl70x --reset .\name_of_firmware.bin
or
.\blisp.exe write -c bl70x --reset .\name_of_firmware.bin

For BL60X, you need to specify also the serial port path:

blisp write --chip bl60x --reset -p /dev/ttyUSB0 name_of_firmware.bin

If you wish to see additional debugging, set the environmental variable LIBSERIALPORT_DEBUG before running. You can either export this in your shell or change it for a single run via

  LIBSERIALPORT_DEBUG=y ./a.out write -c bl70x -p /dev/tty.usbmodem0000000200001

Because this is done at the lowest level of serial communication, the displays aren't packet-aware or know about the chip's command set or such. This is really only useful for debugging systems-level issues withing the device or blisp itself.

Troubleshooting

macOS

Depending on your current system security settings, modern versions of macOS requires all software to be notarised before you are able to execute it. This is specially true for software that is downloaded directly from the internet.

If that is the case, you will get an error that looks like the following:

“blisp” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.

macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware.

In that case, you will need to remove the quarantine flag that macOS adds to the executable. After that you should be able to run blisp as normal.

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine blisp

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