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Ralim / IronOS

Open Source Soldering Iron firmware
https://ralim.github.io/IronOS/
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cloned STM32 Chips? #1574

Closed violavon closed 1 year ago

violavon commented 1 year ago

What is "cloned STM32 Chips"?

From README:

Device DC QC PD EPR BLE Battery Recommended
MHP30 ❌ ❌ ✔️ ❌ ❌ ❌ ✔️
Pinecil V1 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ❌ ❌ ✔️ ✔️
Pinecil V2 ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ✔️
TS80P ❌ ✔️ ✔️ ❌ ❌ ✔️ ✔️
TS100 ✔️ ❌ ❌ ❌ ❌ ✔️ ❌
TS80 ❌ ✔️ ❌ ❌ ❌ ✔️ ❌

*Please note that Miniware started shipping TS100's using cloned STM32 Chips. While these do work with IronOS, their DFU bootloader works terribly, and it is hard to get it to successfully flash larger firmware images like IronOS without timing out. This is the main reason why the TS100 is no longer recommended.

Ralim commented 1 year ago

Chips made by a manufacturer other than STMicroelectronics that try and implement their API but often do so poorly. These units also have a large number of quirks that Miniware's bootloader does not work around correctly; so programming larger firmware files (such as IronOS) is a painful experience.

A place to start for information on these would be here: https://hackaday.com/2020/10/22/stm32-clones-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/