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Brian Starkey
Personal blog · blog.usedbytes.comhardwareprogrammingsystems
Brian Starkey writes usedbytes:Blog, a personal blog at blog.usedbytes.com about hardware, programming and systems. Since 2019, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Pico Serial Bootloader (2021)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread titled "I like the RP2040", so the posts appear to cover the RP2040 microcontroller. The one comment discusses RP2040 bootloader stages and does not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brian Starkey's blog
Most-linked posts?
- Pico Serial Bootloader (2021)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-01
What Hacker News says?
You can have several bootloader stages, and in fact that's how the RP2040 works [1]! Stage 1 bootloader is the one in ROM and it normally just reads stage 2 from the flash chip. Stage 2 then initialises the flash properly, and you can have further stages like [2] to implement the trial-rollback procedure. Stage 1 is a safety net, even if the trial-rollback procedure goes terribly wrong the device can still be unbric…
Comment linking /2021/12/pico-serial-bootloader/
on “I like the RP2040”Submitted Reverse Engineering keyboard firmware with Ghidra as a story · 38 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pico Serial Bootloader (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pi Wars: Post Mortem as a story · 1 points
HN discussion