Closed dobairoland closed 4 months ago
To the best of my knowledge the goal is to use esp-flasher-stub in all Espressif SW products where stub flasher is used, including esptool. However, if esp-flasher-stub won't support ESP8266 then we will have to keep maintaining two flasher stubs which kills the main idea of to have just one flasher stub.
To the best of my knowledge the goal is to use esp-flasher-stub in all Espressif SW products where stub flasher is used, including esptool.
This is news to me, it would be nice if this could be better communicated. I was told that it might be used in one or two flashing applications ~2 year ago, and we have received little to no feedback since, and definitely no assistance with developing the stub. I don't know that any projects other than espflash
have even tried using the stub, I have not been made aware of this if it is the case.
However, if esp-flasher-stub won't support ESP8266 then we will have to keep maintaining two flasher stubs which kills the main idea of to have just one flasher stub.
I empathize with this, but I don't understand how we're expected to add ESP8266 support when we don't even have a working HAL for it. We have a small team and already we barely have the resources to keep up with the projects we already have. The ESP8266 is EOL in ~2 years and this does not feel like a good use of our time.
Maybe somebody from another team or the community can step up and make this happen if it is a priority.
We will make efforts to keep using the old flasher stub for ESP8266. So this can be closed...
Thank you for your comments.
See https://github.com/esp-rs/esp-flasher-stub/issues/36