Most people will get dfu loaded Tomu boards

[mithro]

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Would probably be a good idea to focus on the dfu loading rather than the old serial bootloader. Most people will be getting their boards from crowdsupply which comes preloaded...

[ringerc]

Agreed. Not only that, I found the instructions for the serial bootloader to be insufficient anyway - see http://blog.ringerc.id.au/2019/01/updating-tomu-bootloader-on-tomuim.html . They don't link to the firmware to use and I found that screen didn't work for me, I had to use minicom then figure out the archaic UI for xmodem uploads.

I suggest moving the legacy bootloader info to another page. On the main page just mention that you can tell if you have a tomu with an old firmware that needs updating (link) if:

• no lights blink when you plug it in

• dmesg shows something like

    [14275.148309] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=0003, bcdDevice= 0.00
    [14275.148321] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
    [14275.148329] usb 1-2: Product: EFM32 USB CDC serial port device
    [14275.148336] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
    [14275.155055] cdc_acm 1-2:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device
  

  when it's connected;

• lsusb shows ID 10c4:0003; and

• it doesn't show up in sudo dfu-util -l

wheras on Tomuboot, assuming it's not booting straight into a program, you'll see:

• sudo dfu-util -l will list it as e.g.

     Found DFU: [1209:70b1] ver=0101, devnum=55, cfg=1, intf=0, path="1-2", alt=0, name="Tomu Bootloader (5) v2.0-rc7", serial="UNKNOWN";
  

• dmesg will report output like:

     [19998.971118] usb 1-2: new full-speed USB device number 56 using xhci_hcd
     [19999.099659] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1209, idProduct=70b1, bcdDevice= 1.01
     [19999.099669] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
     [19999.099675] usb 1-2: Product: Tomu Bootloader (5) v2.0-rc7
     [19999.099681] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Kosagi
  

  ; and

• lsusb will show a device ID 1209:70b1

[ringerc]

The legacy firmware update page is free to re-use any of the material on the above blog, too.