Reflashable Secure boot issue

[raul.rodriguez]

I'm trying to enable reflashable secure boot for some development devices. Using esp-idf and esp32 arduino as component.
Steps I have taken following the secure boot documentation.

1. In menuconfig: Enable hardware secure boot in bootloader - reflashable - sign binaries during build
2.

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espsecure.py generate_signing_key secure_boot_signing_key.pem

3. make bootloader - follow instruction to flash the bootloader key - then flash the bootloader - check espefuse.py summary (key has been burned)
4. make flash
5. open up a serial monitor using putty. It shows a bunch of weird characters. hello world isn't running. Even after restart.

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6. check espefuse.py summary again ABS_DONE_0 has NOT been burned by bootloader

Before I run make flash this is what I get on the serial output.

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I don't know what I missed. I can deselect secure boot in the menuconfig and reflash everything on the same board after a make and my code runs fine but without secure boot.

[WiFive]

https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... oader-size

[ESP_Angus]

Hi raul,

As WiFive suggests, probably the bootloader has gotten bigger and either the partition table needs to be moved to a higher offset, the or bootloader logging verbosity reduced to shrink the binary.

Regarding the putty error, possibly the baud rate is wrong (should 115200bps). The second screenshot shows serial log output (captured via "monitor" target), so something is working correctly over serial.

[raul.rodriguez]

Thank you guys for your responses. I ended up remembering the bootloader size issue after I posted this and fixed the issue.

Both captures are using putty. The corrupted looking output was after I flashed the partition table. Which ended up partially writing over the bootloader so that might have been where that issue came from.

[ESP_Angus]

The corrupted looking output was after I flashed the partition table. Which ended up partially writing over the bootloader so that might have been where that issue came from.

Of course, that makes sense. Glad you got everything working.