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by sylware 1263 days ago
How such a massive bug could slip thru?

This is weird.

If resellers with stocks know that, they will send back the boards and ask for a refund.
2 comments
packetlost 1263 days ago
I'm told it's a bug in the chip from the upstream supplier (BL808 by Bouffalo Lab), so there's not much they can do. IMO it's not a huge deal, and like I said, you can both flash with UART over GPIO pins or implement a bootloader yourself
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sylware 1262 days ago
I would need a USB<->UART converter and do some soldering, then fix the bootloader to re-enable the USB-C...

meh.

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packetlost 1262 days ago
I mean, you'd need to solder headers onto the board, but otherwise not really. There's JTAG headers pre-soldered that might work too, but I'd have to look at which UART/CPU they're hooked up to.
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imtringued 1262 days ago
You don't need to solder anything.
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sylware 1262 days ago
The UART GPIOs are wired to a board standard connector? If so I would need that USB(connector)-UART(connector) cable I guess.
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imtringued 1262 days ago
You just flash it with your hardware programmer like the rest of the industry. It is not a massive bug at all.
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