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dfu-util - Device firmware update (DFU) USB programmer

dfu-util -l [-v] [-d vid:pid[,vid:pid]] [-p path] [-c configuration] [-i interface] [-a alt-intf] [-S serial[,serial]]

dfu-util [-v] [-d vid:pid[,vid:pid]] [-p path] [-c configuration] [-i interface] [-a alt-intf] [-S serial[,serial]] [-t size] [-Z size] [-s address] [-R] [-D|-U file]

dfu-util [-hV]

dfu-util is a program that implements the host (computer) side of the USB DFU (Universal Serial Bus Device Firmware Upgrade) protocol.

dfu-util communicates with devices that implement the device side of the USB DFU protocol, and is often used to upgrade the firmware of such devices.

List the currently attached DFU capable USB devices.
Specify run-time and/or DFU mode vendor and/or product IDs of the DFU device to work with. VENDOR and PRODUCT are hexadecimal numbers (no prefix needed), "*" (match any), or "-" (match nothing). By default, any DFU capable device in either run-time or DFU mode will be considered.

If you only have one standards-compliant DFU device attached to your computer, this parameter is optional. However, as soon as you have multiple DFU devices connected, dfu-util will detect this and abort, asking you to specify which device to use.

If only run-time IDs are specified (e.g. "--device 1457:51ab"), then in addition to the specified run-time IDs, any DFU mode devices will also be considered. This is beneficial to allow a DFU capable device to be found again after a switch to DFU mode, since the vendor and/or product ID of a device usually changes in DFU mode.

If only DFU mode IDs are specified (e.g. "--device ,951:26"), then all run-time devices will be ignored, making it easy to target a specific device in DFU mode.

If both run-time and DFU mode IDs are specified (e.g. "--device 1457:51ab,:2bc"), then unspecified DFU mode components will use the run-time value specified.

Examples:


Work with a device in run-time mode with vendor ID 0x1457 and product ID 0x51ab, or in DFU mode with vendor ID 0x0951 and product ID 0x0026


Work with a device in run-time mode with vendor ID 0x1457 and product ID 0x51ab, or in DFU mode with vendor ID 0x1457 and product ID 0x02bc


Work with a device in run-time mode with vendor ID 0x1457 and product ID 0x51ab, or in DFU mode with any vendor and product ID


Work with a device in DFU mode with vendor ID 0x0951 and product ID 0x0026


Work with any device in run-time mode, and ignore any device in DFU mode


Ignore any device in run-time mode, and Work with any device in DFU mode
Specify the path to the DFU device.
Specify the configuration of the DFU device. Note that this is only used for matching, the configuration is not set by dfu-util.
Specify the DFU interface number.
Specify the altsetting of the DFU interface by name or by number.
Specify the run-time and DFU mode serial numbers used to further restrict device matches. If multiple, identical DFU devices are simultaneously connected to a system then vendor and product ID will be insufficient for targeting a single device. In this situation, it may be possible to use this parameter to specify a serial number which also must match.

If only a single serial number is specified, then the same serial number is used in both run-time and DFU mode. An empty serial number will match any serial number in the corresponding mode.

Specify the number of bytes per USB transfer. The optimal value is usually determined automatically so this option is rarely useful. If you need to use this option for a device, please report it as a bug.
Specify the expected upload size, in bytes.
Read firmware from device into FILE.
Write firmware from FILE into device. When FILE is -, the firmware is read from stdin.
Issue USB reset signalling after upload or download has finished.
Specify target address for raw binary download/upload on DfuSe devices. Do not use this for downloading DfuSe (.dfu) files. Modifiers can be added to the address, separated by a colon, to perform special DfuSE commands such as "leave" DFU mode, "unprotect" and "mass-erase" flash memory.
Print more information about dfu-util's operation. A second -v will turn on verbose logging of USB requests. Repeat this option to further increase verbosity.
Show a help text and exit.
Show version information and exit.

(with the Neo1973 hardware)

Flashing the rootfs:
$ dfu-util -a rootfs -R -D /path/to/openmoko-devel-image.jffs2

Flashing the kernel:
$ dfu-util -a kernel -R -D /path/to/uImage

Flashing the bootloader:
$ dfu-util -a u-boot -R -D /path/to/u-boot.bin

Copying a kernel into RAM:
$ dfu-util -a 0 -R -D /path/to/uImage

Once this has finished, the kernel will be available at the default load address of 0x32000000 in Neo1973 RAM. Note: You cannot transfer more than 2MB of data into RAM using this method.

Flashing a .dfu (special DfuSe format) file to the device:
$ dfu-util -a 0 -D /path/to/dfuse-image.dfu

Reading out 1 KB of flash starting at address 0x8000000:
$ dfu-util -a 0 -s 0x08000000:1024 -U newfile.bin

Flashing a binary file to address 0x8004000 of device memory and ask the device to leave DFU mode:
$ dfu-util -a 0 -s 0x08004000:leave -D /path/to/image.bin

Please report any bugs to the dfu-util bug tracker at http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/tickets/. Please use the --verbose option (repeated as necessary) to provide more information in your bug report.

The dfu-util home page is http://sourceforge.net/p/dfu-util/

dfu-util was originally written for the OpenMoko project by Weston Schmidt <weston_schmidt@yahoo.com> and Harald Welte <hwelte@hmw-consulting.de>. Over time, nearly complete support of DFU 1.0, DFU 1.1 and DfuSe ("1.1a") has been added.

dfu-util is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.

This manual page was originally written by Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>, and is now part of the dfu-util project.

September 23, 2012