Programming nRF52832 from embedded linux

[tuv0k]

We are developing embedded linux platform and nRF52832 will be bluetooth peripheral. Since there will be an option to update linux kernel/file system we would like to be able to program nRF52832 from the embedded linux(ARM-Cortex A9) platform.

I hoped that there will be an ROM bootloader in nRF like most of the ARM MCU vendors have, but I can't find anything related to that.

nrfjtool is not an option since it's not open source so we can't compile it using gnueabihf.

Are there any other alternatives?

[Wojtek]

You could check daplink project. It uses small LPC uc as programmer, and is open source. I am using it to program nRF's from linux with pyOCD

[run_ar]

There is a case about programming using SWD here that might be of interest to you.