HackieboxNG Custom Firmware

Introduction

HackieboxNG is the next generation bootloader and firmware for your toniebox!

HackieboxNG SD bootloader

The HackieboxNG SD bootloader consists of two parts. The bootloader itself that allows selecting + running different firmwares and a relocator to move the bootloaders memory to the upper end of the memory. In addition there is a sd bootloader with one fixed file to run called preloader.

Features

• Nine firmware slots
• Loading any CC3200 standard firmware
• Loading the original firmware directly
• Patching binaries in memory for ex. enable SLIX tags or disable charger wakeup (more)
• Highly configurable via json files

Installation

Please take a look into the wiki

HackieboxNG Custom Firmware

TBD

Technical introduction

The HackieboxNG CFW is based on a full open source gcc (arm/ti) toolchain. This allows building the new firmware generation without dependecies to micropython or Energia. Makefiles + Visual Studio Code launch.json/tasks.json are provided to get started instantly on linux. An openocd file for the cc3200-launchpad is preconfigured in the launch.json. You may alternativly use the provided j-link config file if you got this type of debugger.

How to build

Currently building is only supported under Linux and tested under Debian and Ubuntu. As a first step it is adviced to run the /common/buildAndShip.bootloader.sh script once without parameters and once /common/buildAndShip.bootloader.sh debug. This will build all artefacts and needed dependency artefacts. (especially the driverlib and libsimplelink_nonos_opt) For building just single artefacts just take a look into the buildAndShip.bootloader.sh or the provided /.vscode/tasks.json

Chech out the wiki for more detailed information