Not able to download program with GCC setup

[FormerMember]

Hi all, I have the exact issue mentioned here - github.com/.../9 I have updated my makefile to generate only one bin file from the Softdevice Hex file, but still I'm getting the ' Failed to download RAMCode!' Error. I'm using S110 v8.1.0 with the nrf51-DK PCA10028 on a Linux machine. Regards, Prithvi

[Hung Bui]

@PrithviRaj Narendra: What do you mean by "generate only one bin file from the softdevice hex file" ? Do you have trouble when flashing our example's compiled hex file ? Could you try using nrfjprog.exe to flash the hex/bin file ?

[FormerMember]

Earlier the softdevice hex file was used to generate two bin files, one for the main part and one for the UICR part using arm-non-eabi-objcopy. Now I think after SoftDevice S110v7 there is no UICR part in Softdevice. I'm using Linux, so I won't be able to use nrfprog.exe Could you check if the make targets in this repo works - github.com/.../nrf51-pure-gcc-setup Thanks!

[Hung Bui]

@PrithviRaj Narendra : Please use the latest SDK which we support GCC out of the box. The github example is very old. You can download the SDK here.

How do you flash the hex/bin file ? I assume you have the Jlink tool for Linux ?

[FormerMember]

These are the make targets available in the latest SDK 9.0.0 -

## Program device
.PHONY: flash
flash: $(OUTPUT_BINARY_DIRECTORY)/$(OUTPUT_FILENAME).hex
	nrfjprog --reset --program $(OUTPUT_BINARY_DIRECTORY)/$(OUTPUT_FILENAME).hex

.PHONY: reset
reset:
	nrfjprog --reset

.PHONY: erase
erase:
	nrfjprog --erase

But nrfjprog being a Windows program I can't use it in Linux. Yes, I was using JLinkExe tool by SEGGER for Linux. Is there GCC support for Linux, not only Windows by NordicSemi? When I upgraded from 6.0.0 Softdevice S110 to 8.1.0, I am not able to use the same method that I was using earlier, similar to github.com/.../nrf51-pure-gcc-setup

[Hung Bui]

@PrithviRaj: I'm sorry that I'm expert in Linux. But could you try to follow this ? : https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/question/44412/firmware-flashing-using-jlinkexe/

We currently don't have support for gcc on Linux, but I was thinking that it shouldn't be too tricky to port.