10 years, 6 months ago.

MBED Loader bug?

Hi All

I have used the FRDM-K60F board for the first time today and used the new Freescale KDS (Kinetis Development Studio) for the first time too.

In the process I found that I couldn't use the debugger with this environment (should be possible but it didn't want to know on my system with KDS - although it did work fine with IAR). This is however not the point of this report since I am sure that it is a set up issue hiding somewhere, but rather I decided that I would use the MBED loader to program the binary code that I had to the K64. This is when I found a problem (with working debugger I may not have tried...).

Strangely I found that I could successfully load some demonstration binaries but I couldn't load mine and it looks like the MBED loader (USB-MSD) crashes each time I try. I reported this at the FRDM-K64F platform but though it wise to report it here generally so that it doesn't get overseen. See https://mbed.org/questions/3323/Loader-crashing-when-flash-configuration/ for the full details. I manged to work around it by not setting my typical Flash configuration settings because that turned out to be what triggered its behaviour...

If anyone is interested in my experience with the new KDS (and the FRDM-K64F) I have written a report here: https://community.freescale.com/thread/323324

Here I have also discussed the project that I ported to the FRDM-K64F (boot loader supporting SD card, HID and Ethernet Web server uploading) plus an application showing most board features (with code to try): https://community.freescale.com/thread/322132

Regards

Mark